Overview
- Interview Summary
- Magda Auerbach, born in 1928 in Užhorod, Czechoslovakia, describes growing up comfortably in an Orthodox Jewish family; being forced to wear the yellow star; her family being kicked out of their home after Passover; moving to a camp; being transported by freight train to Birkenau-Auschwitz; her experiences in Birkenau-Auschwitz before being moved again to a labor camp with her sisters where they cleared the rubble of bombed factories; transferring to a number of other camps; taking part in a death march and sleeping in stables; and realizing the war was over on May 9, 1945 when she and the other people on the death march saw the guards had abandoned the stable.
- Interviewee
- Magda Auerbach
- Interviewer
- Peter T. Auerbach
- Date
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interview:
after 1990
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Peter T. Auerbach
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Extent
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1 digital file : WMA.
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Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Death marches--Europe. Forced labor. Jewish children in the Holocaust--Slovakia. Jews--Slovakia. Star of David badges. World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation. Women--Personal narratives.
- Personal Name
- Auerbach, Magda, 1928-
- Corporate Name
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Birkenau (Concentration camp)
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Peter Auerbach donated a copy of the oral history interview with Magda Auerbach to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum June 23, 2013. The interview was conducted by Peter Auerbach in the early 1990s.
- Special Collection
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2023-11-16 09:29:50
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