Mother of pearl pendant

Mother of pearl pendant 

Mother of pearl pendant 

overall: Height: 1.630 inches (4.14 cm) | Width: 0.750 inches (1.905 cm) | Depth: 0.120 inches (0.305 cm) 

Pendant that originally belonged to Magda Lowy. She received it before the beginning of World War II in 1939 and entrusted it to her aunt, Jolie, for safekeeping. Jolie survived the Holocaust by living in hiding in Belgium. In June 1944, 21 year old Magda and her family were deported from Satu Mare, Hungary (Romania) to Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center in Poland. She and her sister, Elizabeth, were able to stay together at Auschwitz and at Ober Hohenelbe, the labor camp in the Sudetenland (Czechoslovakia) where they were sent in November. They worked as forced labor in a factory making electrical tubes for the automatic-pilot planes that flew over the Channel to England. The camp was liberated by Soviet forces on June 6, 1945. Magda and Elizabeth returned to Satu Mare searching for family members, but all had perished, except for one uncle.