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AudioMagda Altman Schaloum - 05-June -2001 - Weaving Women's Words
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Oral historian Roz Bornstein interviewed Magda Schaloum on June 5, 2001 in Mercer Island, WA as part of the Jewish Womenâs Archive "Weaving Women's Words" project. Holocaust survivor Magda Altman Schaloum speaks out on behalf of all Holocaust survivors and their families. Born and raised in Hungary, she endured acts of antisemitism throughout her childhood, and in 1944 and 1945 Magda was sent to several concentration camps. She lost both her parents and her brother. Magda met her husband, Isaac Schaloum, in a Displaced Persons Camp in Germany. Isaac was from Salonika, Greece. They emigrated to Seattle in 1950, where Isaac became a tailor and businessman, and they raised three children. Although of Hungarian descent, Magda became an active and beloved member of Seattleâs Sephardic community. She volunteers for many Jewish organizations, including the Washington State Holocaust Education Resource Center, and continues to bear witness to the horrors of hatred and antisemitism. Magda Schaloum photo: Credit Joan Roth. Joan Roth's website In the early 2000s, the Jewish Women's Archive conducted oral history interviews with 30 Jewish women living in Baltimore and another 30 in Seattle. Bo…
Directors & creators
Jewish Women's Archive
Subjects
Holocaust Survivor; Antisemitism
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