Magda Beer - July 5, 1983
Life Before the War II
Um, and your mother was still alive when the Germans came?
Oh, yes.
Did she live with you?
Yes, we were together. When I married and I moved my father and mother-in-law's house--not house, apartment, and after the war, my father-in-law never came back and my mother-in-law lived with, with her uh, niece, and I went back with my little son to ???
What was your son's name?
Peter.
Peter?
Yes.
So what happened from '42 to '44, you just continued being a housewife and...
No I was working in my father in law's uh, office.
You and your husband worked together then?
My husband work in the factory and I was working in the office. It was a small factory and everything was stolen.
Mm-hm. And your son stayed with your mother then?
Yes.
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