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 sweetheart.

Ádám's activity in the field of source publication is also significant. Together with the academicians László Zsigmond and Gyula Juhász, she carried out significant activity in the field of source publications. She edited volumes II–III and played a major role in the creation of Diplomatic Documents on the Foreign Policy of Hungary 1936–1945. The Versailles System and Central Europe (2003) Who was Edvard Benes (2009) In the Grip of the Great Powers, The Successor States of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in the Two World Wars (2014)