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Lady Who Survived The Polish Death Camp Is Travelling Round With Exhibition To Schools

1984 , Chelmsford (Essex)

Cat no. 33996

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Auschwitz survivor Magda O’Loughlin talks about her experiences.

At Chelmsford in Essex, Magda O’Loughlin is seen arriving at a school and visits an exhibition of photographs and drawings of prisoners at the Nazi death camps with Anglia TV reporter Stephen Cole. He says that for 36 years Magda did not tell anyone about the time she spent in Auschwitz as a Hungarian Jew. Now she spends several days a week going into schools to talk about her experience of surviving the concentration camp. As children sit listening and clearly moved, Magda talks about the chimney, the sounds and the empty sick house. Magda points out features in photographs in the exhibition including a Nazi officer sorting people arriving on trains and trucks and identification portraits of people with shaved heads. A panel shows the different prisoners’ marks, and a tattoo. Magda rolls up her sleeve to show the tattoo on her arm, saying she would not have it removed but is proud she is wearing it as a reminder that she is lucky to be alive. She says ‘I must be made for living to tell these stories for other people’. The reporter says that Magda is no longer a Jew but gave up her faith after the war. Sometimes the memories become overwhelming for her and she needs help. This short video was made to be shown in a news story on Anglia Television early evening news / magazine programme About Anglia.

Keywords

Jews; Concentration camps; Holocaust; Nazism; Inhumanity; Exhibitions; Remembrance; Witness

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Lady Who Survived The Polish Death Camp Is Travelling Round With Exhibition To Schools

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