[T1S1] Respondent gives place of birth: Czechoslovakia; recalls events of 1943: Germans arrived after Passover, took family to Munkach, thought it was brick factory; describes conditions: no toilet, no food, only what family brought from home, slept on floor. Respondent recounts move after one week: loaded on to trains (like cattle cars), taken to Auschwitz concentration camp, same conditions as Munkach; describes incident: holding sister's baby and sister holding her other baby; Polish guard took both babies, never seen again; explains sisters went one way, parents went a different way. Respondent discusses her work in Auschwitz: very hard; believes food contaminated; describes becoming ill with severe rash: put into infirmary for many days; notes in October talk of Russians coming closer, Respondent moved to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp; afterwards, moved again to Aschensleiben, Germany; details work done there: fixing airplane parts; explains kindness of German soldier: helped her get through bout with diarrhea while on train; recalls incident in Auschwitz: asked to take dead bodies to crematorium, unable to do it; managed to be out of sight when bodies were removed. Respondent depicts trains filled with people arriving daily, some trains filled with children; comments on liberation: May, 1944; describes traveling from village to village with sister and 150 others, nowhere to go; recounts asking stranger for place to stay, not safe because of Ukrainians; found work sewing. Respondent describes traveling to find shelter at nearby brook: Russians arrived, tried to rape girls, fled again; looked for Americans to help them get through to border; recounts search for brother in Czech army. Respondent explains after war, Americans put Respondent and sister on train to Prague; helpfulness of Jewish organizations in finding brother; begins search for more brothers, notes 9 children in family; depicts travel to Budapest: found one brother and met cousin who became Respondent's husband
Contributor
University of Pittsburgh (depositor)
Identifier
pitt:ais196440.298_t1s1
Relation
ais196440.298
"Markovic, Malvina - August 18, 1999" Metadata
Metadata Details
Title
Markovic, Malvina - August 18, 1999
Creator
National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW), Pittsburgh Section
Description
Respondent Holocaust survivor, born, 1924.
Contributor
Markovic, Malvina (interviewee), Dickman, Gene;Richman, Hy (interviewer), University of Pittsburgh (depositor)
Date
1999-08-18
Type
oral histories (literary genre), Sound
Identifier
pitt:ais196440.298
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