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Magda Ádám
Magda Ádám (15 October 1925 – 27 January 2017) was a historian, Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and scientific advisor to its Institute of History, an honorary fellow of St. Hilda's College, Oxford, and Honorary Professor of Eötvös Loránd University. She was a Holocaust survivor and became an internationally recognized 20th-century historian. Biography Ádám was born on 15 October 1925 into a large, close-knit Jewish family in the village of Turi Remety in Subcarpathian Ruthenia, which is a 4,500-square-mile region that, in the course of the 20th century, was ruled by five different nations. After German troops invaded the area in 1944, Magda and her entire family were sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp. Magda and her two sisters who worked as slave laborers survived the camp but the remainder of their family was murdered by Nazi forces. When the concentration camp was liberated, she moved to Budapest, and married György Ádám, her childhood sweeth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ádám Magda (2008)
Adam is a common masculine given name in the English language, of Hebrew origin. The name derives from Adam (Hebrew: אָדָם), the first human according to the Hebrew Bible. When used as noun, אָדָם means "man" or "humanity". Its Biblical and Quranic uses have ensured that it is a common name in countries which draw on these traditions, and it is particularly common in Christian and Muslim majority countries. In most languages, its spelling is the same, although the pronunciation varies. Adán and Adão are the Spanish and Portuguese forms, respectively. Adam is also a surname in many countries, although it is not as common in English as its derivative Adams (surname), Adams (sometimes spelt Addams). In other languages, there are similar surnames derived from Adam, such as Adamo, Adamov (surname), Adamov, Adamowicz, Adamski (surname), Adamski, McAdam (surname), McAdam, etc. In Arabic, Adam () means "made from earth's mud". Translations *Albanian language, Albanian: Ada ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |