IF YOU HEARD WHAT ROBBIE HEARD

ROBBIE SHARES THE STORY OF HIS GRANDMOTHER, MAGDA WEISS. MAGDA WAS FROM OLCSVA, HUNGARY, A SMALL TOWN IN RURAL HUNGARY. SHE WAS FROM A CLOSE KNIT FAMILY, THE MIDDLE CHILD AND ONLY DAUGHTER. AT THE END OF PASSOVER, 1944, THE HUNGARIANS, WHO WERE ALLIES WITH THE NAZIS, INVADED THEIR TOWN AND MAGDA AND HER FAMILY SENT TO A GHETTO, WHILE HER FATHER AND OLDER BROTHER WERE SENT INTO A FORCED LABOR BATTALION. THAT PASSOVER OF 1944 WAS THE LAST ONE THEIR FAMILY WOULD EVER HAVE TOGETHER. NOT LONG AFTER, MAGDA AND HER FAMILY WERE DEPORTED TO AUSCHWITZ, WHERE SHE MIRACULOUSLY SURVIVED HARSH AND INHUMANE CONDITIONS BY COOKING FOR S.S. OFFICERS. ROBBIE RECOUNTS HOW COOKING WOULD ALWAYS BE A PART OF MAGDA’S LIFE, WELL INTO ROBBIE’S UPBRINGING. MAGDA WAS LIBERATED BY THE RUSSIANS IN 1945, THE ONLY SURVIVING MEMBER OF HIS FAMILY. SHE MET AND MARRIED LASZLO WEISS IN 1946, AND IN 1966 THEY IMMIGRATED TO ISRAEL WITH THEIR TWO DAUGHTERS. SHE REMAINED DEVOTED TO JUDAISM THROUGHOUT HER LIFE, AND BUILT A LEGACY AND A FAMILY THAT CONTINUES TO GROW AND THRIVE TODAY.

IF YOU HEARD WHAT ROBBIE HEARD, YOU WOULD NEVER FORGET.