Anya (Magda's Mother) (Earth-616)

Anya was a Romani woman, born around the start of the 20th century. In 1935 Anya and her daughter Magda worked at a school in Nuremberg, Germany where Magda first met young student Max Eisenhardt (better known as Magneto in the future).^[3] After the rise of the Nazi Party, Anya and Magda were sent to Marzahn Detention Camp in 1936 because of their Romani ancestry.^[4] Anya died in the gas chambers sometime in the next few years;^[2] in 1944 Magda was seen all alone in Romani camp outside Auschwitz where she met Max Eisenhardt once again.^[5]

After Magda and Max Eisenhardt escaped from the Auschwitz, they lived together. In the following years they married and gave birth to a daughter, whom they named after Anya.^[1]