Judith magyar isaacson biography

Judith Magyar Isaacson G’67, Overseer Emerita,died on November 10, 2015, in Auburn, Maine.

(The following was provided by The Portland Press Herald on November 11, 2015)

AUBURN – Judith Magyar Isaacson, Holocaust survivor, advocate for women’s education, teacher and memoirist, died on Nov.

10, at the age of 90.

Judith was born in Kaposvar, Hungary in 1925. Her extraordinary voyage took her from this small provincial city in southeastern Hungary, to concentration camps in Poland and Germany, to Auburn, where she lived with her husband, Irving Isaacson for 70 years.

An eager student and valedictorian of her high school class, Judith planned to write poetry and study at the Sorbonne until her dreams were crushed by the Nazi occupation.

In June 1944 she was transported to Auschwitz, the notorious annihilation camp.

Herded into a selection line for the gas chambers with her mother, Rose, and her aunt Magda, Jutka defied the infamous Dr. Mengele, risking death so they