Documents found: 9

  1. EHRI-ET-WL1375B310_02.jpg
    EHRI-ET-WL1375B310
    1939-02 | Vienna
    The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, Kristallnacht Reports (coll. 1375), B. 310. Original in German.
    A series of letters written by Leni, a 12-year-old girl from Vienna, to a “Frau Z”, later referred to as “Auntie”. The letters discuss the difficulties of taking care of her young cousin Hans after the recent death of her parents and the…
  2. EHRI-ET-WL16560458_01.jpg
    EHRI-ET-WL16560458
    1957
    The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, Eyewitness testimony Collection (coll. 1656), 458. Original in German.
    Testimony of Ursula Finke, who describes the increasing discrimination after 1933 and the blackmailing of her father. She finished school early and learned dressmaking. Finke was assigned to forced labor in a coat factory and moved to a “Jewish…
  3. EHRI-ET-WL16560540_01.jpg
    EHRI-ET-WL16560540
    1957
    The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, Eyewitness testimony Collection (coll. 1656), 540. Original in German
    Testimony of Julia (Maria) Abraham-Stern, a trained seamstress. Her husband and son were deported, while she and her daughter were sent to the Lwów Ghetto with her parents. Her mother committed suicide to allow her to go into hiding with her daughter…
  4. EHRI-ET-WL16560707_01.jpg
    EHRI-ET-WL16560707
    The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, Eyewitness testimony Collection (coll. 1656), 707. Original in German.
    Testimony of Anita Wallfisch, who describes forced labor in a factory in which there were also French forced laborers and POWs. She and her sister organized fake papers for POWs to escape. Both were arrested. Wallfisch was sent to Breslau prison…
  5. EHRI-ET-WL16560771_01.jpg
    EHRI-ET-WL16560771
    1958
    The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, Eyewitness testimony Collection (coll. 1656), 771. Original in German.
    Account of Magda Szanto on the rapid decree of antisemitic regulations in Budapest and how they affected daily life, for example shopping and robbery by German soldiers and ethnic Germans. She describes the difficulties of communicating with her…
  6. EHRI-ET-WL16560413_01.jpg
    EHRI-ET-WL16560413
    1948-05-28
    The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, Eyewitness testimony Collection (coll. 1656), 413. Original in German and English (summary page).
    Testimony of Emil Carlebach, a communist activist from a prominent rabbinical family. He was instrumental in the resistance in Buchenwald. Carlebach describes corruption amongst the guards, how political prisoners gained a certain control over the…
  7. EHRI-ET-YV3549264_01.jpg
    EHRI-ET-YV3549264
    1945-07
    Yad Vashem Archives, The Ball-Kaduri Collection: Contemporary testimonies and reports regarding the Holocaust of the Jews of Germany and Central Europe, 1943-1960 (O.1), file no. 3549264.Original in English.
    Personal report by Max Mannheimer, born in 1918, regarding his experiences in Amsterdam, The Hague, Westerbork, Theresienstadt, and Auschwitz.
  8. EHRI-ET-ZIH3010107_01.jpg
    EHRI-ET-ZIH3010107
    1945 | Siemiatycze
    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…
  9. EHRI-ET-ZIH3010317_01.jpg
    EHRI-ET-ZIH3010317
    1945 | Vilnius
    JHI, 301, Relacja Niusi Białoszer (301/317) Original in Yiddish.
    Testimony of Niusia Białoszer on the capture of Vilnius by the Germans and the confiscation of Jewish shops and houses. She recalls the synagogue and ritual objects burning, the imposition of badges with the Star of David, and the early executions of…