Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Magda Z., a twin, who was born in Budapest, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in 1915. She recounts living in Mukacheve; attending a Hungarian school; marriage in 1936; her son's birth; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions; her husband's draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; ghettoization; deportation with her family to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from her parents, siblings, and son (she never saw her parents or son again); her twin brother identifying her as a twin; placement with other female twins for “medical experiments” by Josef Mengele; being assigned to clean Mengele's quarters; a fellow prisoner preventing her from committing suicide; a brief encounter with her twin; a death march to Wrocław; train transport to Ravensbrück; transfer to Malchow; liberation by Soviet troops; returning home with three women from Mukacheve; learning her twin was alive in Romania; joining him; reunion with her husband; joining another brother in Budapest; another brother's return; recovery in a sanatorium; moving to Karlovy Vary; her son's birth; emigration to Israel in 1949; her daughter's birth; and the recent deaths of her husband and twin brother. Ms. Z. notes not sharing her experiences with her children.
- Published
- Tel Aviv, Israel : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1993
- Interview Date
- June 17, 1993.
- Locale
- Ukraine
Mukacheve
Austria
Budapest (Hungary)
Mukacheve (Ukraine)
Wrocław (Poland)
Romania
Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic) - Cite As
- Magda Z. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3568). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Notes
-
This testimony is in Hebrew.
Physical Details
- Language
- Hebrew
- Copies
- 2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (1 hr., 57 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Hungarian occupation.
Mutual aid.
Hospitals in concentration camps.
Postwar experiences.
Survivor-child relations. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Jews--Ukraine--Mukacheve. Jewish ghettos. Children--Death. Human experimentation in medicine. Brothers and sisters. Twins. Concentration camps--Psychological aspects. Concentration camp inmates--Family relationships. Forced labor. Suicide. Death marches. Austria. Budapest (Hungary) Mukacheve (Ukraine) Wrocław (Poland) Romania. Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic) Oral histories (document genres) Z., Magda,--1915- Mengele, Josef,--1911-1979. Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Birkenau (Concentration camp) Ravensbrück (Concentration camp) Malchow (Concentration camp)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
-
Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Special Collection
-
Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4298291
- Record last modified:
- 2018-05-30 11:40:00
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