Malka Hahn was born in 1926 in Rudnik near Lviv, in the former Austro-Hungarian Empire. The family later moved west to Liberec, where her father, as a rabbi, helped build a strong traditional community.
After the occupation of the borderlands in the autumn of 1938, the family moved to Prague. Malka and her parents were deported to the ghetto in Terezín, and from there to the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp. There she was selected and assigned to slave labour in the camps Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg, Hamburg-Tiefstack, Hamburg-Geilenberg and finally to the infamous Bergen-Belsen camp, where she was liberated. She spent the post-war years in convalescence in Sweden, from where she eventually emigrated to the United States, later relocating to Canada.
The interview was filmed in April 1995 in Downsview, Ontario, Canada.
Think about Malka's relationship to Judaism. How would you describe her relationship to Judaism and the Jewish tradition?
What do you think shaped her relationship to Judaism and her ideas about the Jews?
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