Overview
- Interview Summary
- Magda Radnoti discusses her experiences during WWII; the deportation of her husband Istvan, who was taken with 200 other physicians to the Jozsefvaros train station for deportation to Auschwitz or Dachau in autumn 1944, after the Arrow Cross coup; Raoul Wallenberg saving her husband and others from deportation; her husband going to a protected Swedish house, where he worked as its doctor, and never went outside throughout the rest of the war; her work as a physiotherapist; surviving the war by using false identity papers as Veronika Takaos, nurse; receiving a Schutzpass from Dr. Radnoti’s 85-year-old relative living in Romania, but she did not use it; hiding with a friend of theirs, Gyozo Salgo, after receiving false papers from her brother-in-law who was a doctor; refusing to go on a death march to Vienna, Austria, and being set free; living in protected Swedish houses; the liberation of Budapest by the Russians; returning to their home, which was damaged from bombings; and being a witness at a court hearing for a doctor friend who had saved many Jews by putting plaster casts on their legs (charges against him were dismissed).
- Interviewee
- Magda Radnoti
- Date
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interview:
1990 January 10
- Credit Line
- Cite Uppsala Universtets Arkiv as the appropriate archive as holder of the original
Physical Details
- Language
- Hungarian
- Extent
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1 sound cassette (74 min.).
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Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Hiding places--Hungary--Budapest. Holocaust survivors. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. Identification cards--Forgeries--Hungary. Jews--Hungary--Budapest. Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Hungary. Jews--Persecutions--Hungary. Nurses. Passing (Identity)--Hungary. Physical therapists. Women--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue.
- Geographic Name
- Budapest (Hungary) Hungary--History--1918-1945.
- Personal Name
- Radnoti, Magda.
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The audio taped interviews, transcripts, and other documents were collected and compiled by the Raoul Wallenberg Project from 1989-1992. The interviews were acquired by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives in November 1994.
- Special Collection
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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Consists of interviews and transcripts collected by the Raoul Wallenberg Project containing testimony of Holocaust survivors from Hungary. The interviews contain information about the diplomatic work of the Swedish government and its agents, among them Raoul Wallenberg, Per Anger, and Charles Lutz, in Hungary (primarily Budapest) during 1944 and 1945. Also contains records copied from Sweden's Foreign Office, the Hungarian Interior Ministry, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee in New York, the Public Record Office in London, and the War Refugee Board in Hyde Park, N.Y.
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