Magda Herzberger has written a series of books related to the holocaust. Her most successful book, Survival, is considered by experts to be one of the finest memoir's of those times ever written. Magda, in her 90s, still gives lectures at universities across America. If you've ever been to one of her lectures, I'm sure that you remember it as a life-changing experience. She makes the holocaust, faith, and courage come alive.

Survival
The Waltz of the Shadows
Devotional Poetry
Tales of the Magic Forest

If You Truly Love Me
Dreamworld
Transcript of 1980 Interview
Midnight Musings
Surviving Hard Times

Survival by Magda Herzberger is the book where she took these words very seriously, "'Write, Jewish Children!' ('Schreibts, Jidische Kinder!'). They were supposedly Simon Dubnov’s, the famous Jewish historian’s, last words from the death-train before it left the railway station of Riga."

Survival is an autobiography in which the author relates her experiences and her struggle to survive during her captivity as a young, 18-year-old girl in the three German concentration camps: Auschwitz, Bremen, and Bergen-Belsen.

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The Waltz of the Shadows by Magda Herzberger is a book of poetry. This quote is from the preface:

"After all these years, the shadows of the Holocaust are still haunting me. Often they invade my mind quite unexpectedly and dance around me 'the mad waltz of memory.' They are the representatives and reminders of the suffering and misery I endured as a captive 18-year- old girl in the concentration camps of Germany during World War II."

 

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Devotional Poetry by Magda Herzberger is her devotional book of poems.

"O Lord, our God,
Please disperse
The seeds of peace
And brotherhood
Upon the earth,
As time rolls
On the wheels
Of the universe."

Magda dedicates this book of devotional poetry to those readers of Survival who asked her to share some of her prayers with them.

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Tales of the Magic Forest by Magda Herzberger is a book of fantasy with a Muse and a teacher/guide.

Muse:

Celestial music resounded everywhere.
The voice of the Muse echoed in the air.
Then the muse appeared
Like an angel clad in white,
Looking so powerful, yet kind,
Offering to be the children’s teacher and guide.

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If You Truly Love Me by Magda Herzberger writes these poems as the expressions and manifestations of my deep love, passion, and friendship for her husband. She says, "I am very thankful to the Almighty for sending the man of my dreams to me some 68 years ago."

 

 

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Here was the inspiration for Dreamworld by Magda Herzberger:

"To a great extent Dreamworld is related to my experiences in the Holocaust. The stories in my book are based on the night- mares I had for many years after my return from the German concentration camps. As time went on my nightmares subsided.

"But during the night of June 17, 1981 I had a strange dream with all kinds of characters, dialogues and action. In other words, it encompassed a whole story.

"At some point in my dream the shadows of the Holocaust moved into my dream land in different forms, intertwining with the story of my dream, thus creating units of fiction and reality."

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Transcript by Magda Herzberger did this oral history of her life at the request of Archivist Barbara Kaiser of the Wisconsin Historical Society. Kaiser designed a series of interviews with Wisconsin survivors that discussed not only the Holocaust but also their family history, their childhoods, their post-war lives, their experiences as immigrants, and their opinions of America. Magda's is one of the most remarkable. It opens with her descriptions of a loving family in the Jewish community of Cluj, Romania, during the 1930s. It recounts her teenage years, when Hitler's rising shadow spread eastward and her adolescent pleasures gave way to anti-Semitic persecution. Then, at an age when most young people are enjoying high school, Magda endured the nightmare of Auschwitz, performed slave labor in Bremen while Allied bombs fell all around her, and barely escaped death at Bergen-Belsen.

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From James P. Moore, Jr. Preface to Midnight Musings by Magda Herzberger:

"The apt title of Midnight Musings brings together the prodigious, expansive, and real-life reflections of Magda Herzberger, an extraordinary figure by any measure. She sits alone in the company of her thoughts-past, present, and to come-and reaches out eloquently and movingly to readers from all walks of life. If each one of us is the sum total of everything we have ever experienced in our lives, Magda brings much to the table. We feel privileged to enter into her world, one that unfolds through a variety of poems steeped in reality, fantasy, quest, and profound faith."

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Describing Surviving Hard Times by Magda Herzberger, Magda Says:

"I am a survivor of the Holocaust.

"I faced the most extreme adversities that you can imagine, by being locked up in a hellish environment in which I encountered the danger and probability of being killed one way or another on a daily basis. I was an eyewitness to the many faces of depression. Suicides were rampant among us prisoners, due to the almost intolerable conditions of our camp life.

"I had to devise methods which I call Tools of Survival, in order to have the physical and emotional strength to go on."

In this book she shares these tools with you, hoping they might help as you struggle through "Hard Times."

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