Documents found: 5

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    1940-01-02 | Łomża
    The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, Persecution of Jews in Poland: reports and statements (coll. 532), 102. Original in Yiddish.
    Report by Avrom R., a harvester from Łomża, about internment in a German prison camp in Rastenburg [Kętrzyn]. He highlights the bad relationship between Jews and Poles. In late September 1939, a thousand men were discharged from the camp and forced…
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    1940-02-08 | Suwałki
    The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, Persecution of Jews in Poland: reports and statements (coll. 532), 171. Original in Yiddish.
    Testimony of Suwałki resident and homeowner Pese R. on the transfer of power from the Soviets to the Germans, the subsequent German occupation of Suwałki, and incipient persecution of Jews. She retells her flight from Suwałki with her children being…
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    1940-01-11 | Brok
    The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, Persecution of Jews in Poland: reports and statements (coll. 532), 114. Original in Yiddish.
    Testimony of 24-year-old journalist Dovid M. from Brok on the destruction of Brok and a massacre of 38 Jews taking place on the same day.
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    1940-02-22 | Goworowo
    The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, Persecution of Jews in Poland: reports and statements (coll. 532), 200. Original in Yiddish.
    Testimony of a 21-year-old yeshiva student, originally from Goworowo but studying at a yeshiva in Białystok and Ostrów Mazowiecka at the outbreak of the war. Upon the German invasion of Poland, he returned to his hometown Goworowo and experienced the…
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    1939-10-14 | Mińsk Mazowiecki
    The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, coll. 532, protocol no. 4. Original in Yiddish.
    Testimony of Leyb Rozentsvayg, recorded on 14 October 1939 and describing his flight to Lublin and eventually Warsaw in an attempt to escape the German invasion. He describes the devastation wrought by bombardment and witnessed Jews being rounded up…