Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, Holocaust Survivor Testimonies (coll. 301), Ryszard Weidman Testimony (301/1116). Original in Polish.
Testimony of Ryszard Weidman, a child who was with his mother in the Warsaw Ghetto. He was smuggled out to the “Aryan side” where he hid with strangers, with his aunt and uncle coming to visit. After the defeat of the Warsaw Uprising, he and his aunt…
1946-01-04 | National Committee for Attending Deportees (DEGOB) | Budapest
Hungarian Jewish Archives, DEGOB, Protocol no. 3615. Original in Hungarian.
Testimony of 24-year-old Eszter Eppler on the Auschwitz Protocols, the Kasztner train, international rescue, and Zionist resistance activities in Budapest in 1944.
Ilya Ehrenburg (ed.), Merder fun felker (Moscow: Der emes, 1944), pp. 10–18. Original in Yiddish.
Report of Maria Markovna Sokol, an Ukrainian Jewish woman from Kharkiv, who recounts her survival under Nazi occupation in Kharkiv, imprisonment with all the Jews from Kharkiv in barracks outside the city, massacres of Jews, and how she ran away and…
The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, coll. 532, protocol no. 3. Original in Yiddish.
Testimony of a fifteen-year-old youth, recorded on 15 November 1939 and describing the German invasion of Wyszków and surrounding areas. Y. M. Sh. describes refugees, including many Jewish refugees, who fled from occupied areas into the village and…
JHI, 301, Relacja Lidy Braun (301/25) Original in Yiddish.
Testimony of Lida Brau on the establishment of two ghettos in Hlyboke, one for the younger and one for the older Jews, executions, liquidation actions, Jewish self-defense, and transports to Lublin. After the loss of her family, she run away to the…
JHI, 301, Relacja Rafaela Kirszenbluma (301/107) Original in Yiddish.
Testimony of Rafael Kirszenblum on the Siemiatycze Ghetto, which was established in July 1942. A few months later, the first liquidation action took place. He escaped to a partisan unit in the forests. The second liquidation action at Siemiatycze was…