1945-12-19 | Regina Lebensfeldová-Hofstädterová | Bratislava
Jewish Museum in Prague, Documents of Persecution, inv. no 80. Original in German.
Testimony of Regina Lebensfeldová-Hofstädterová, which became a part of the “documentation campaign” in Prague. Lebensfeldová-Hofstädterová was deported from Bratislava to Auschwitz-Birkenau in the summer of 1942. She describes the arrival of the…
1945-06-18 | National Committee for Attending Deportees (DEGOB)
Hungarian Jewish Archives, DEGOB, Protocol no. 5. Original in Hungarian.
Testimony of the 31-year-old B.E. on ghettoization in Nagyvárad/Oradea in 1944, her attempts to escape, looting and torture committed by the Hungarian gendarmerie, her deportation to and experiences in Auschwitz, slave labor in Riga and Magdeburg,…
1945-06-22 | National Committee for Attending Deportees (DEGOB) | Auschwitz
Hungarian Jewish Archives, DEGOB, Protocol no. 99. Original in Hungarian.
Testimony of the 39-year old R. H. on pre-1944 antisemitism and atrocities in Subcarpathia, deportation of her family from the Munkács brick factory, and her sufferings in the Auschwitz, Geislingen, and Allach concentration camps, liberation and her…
1945-07-04 | National Committee for Attending Deportees (DEGOB)
Hungarian Jewish Archives, DEGOB, Protocol no. 594. Original in Hungarian.
Testimony of K. E. and Fanny Grünzberger on the Kamenets-Podolsk deportations in 1941, ghettoization in Ungvár/Užhorod and deportation to Auschwitz in May 1944, and their suffering in the Bergen-Belsen and Salzwedel labor camps.
1945-07-27 | National Committee for Attending Deportees (DEGOB)
Hungarian Jewish Archives, DEGOB, Protocol no. 2830. Original in Hungarian.
Testimony of 22-year-old R.S. on her family who were deported in the summer of 1941 from Subcarpathia, her experiences in the ghetto of Tab (Western Hungary), slave labor outside the ghetto, deportation from Kaposvár, her experiences in Birkenau and…
Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, Holocaust Survivor Testimonies (coll. 301), Ela Rozenberg Testimony (301/481). Original in Polish.
Testimony of Ela Rozenberg on the deportations of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto and the transport to the Treblinka extermination camp. After the selection, she was assigned to sort the clothes of the murdered Jews and to bury their bodies.
Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, Holocaust Survivor Testimonies (coll. 301), Dawid Kohane Testimony (301/191). Original in Polish.
Testimony of Dawid Kohane regarding the fate of Jews in Rzepiennik Strzyżowsk, where he returned from German captivity. He recalls the establishment of the ghetto, the looting of Jewish property, and the mass execution of Jews during the liquidation…
Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, Holocaust Survivor Testimonies (coll. 301), Lila Wowsi Testimony (301/81). Original in Polish.
Testimony of Ela Wowsi regarding the establishment of the Daugavpils Ghetto in July 1941, the liquidation actions in 1942, the mass executions during the final liquidation of the ghetto, and her imprisonment in the German concentration camps in Toruń…
Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, Holocaust Survivor Testimonies (coll. 301), Hersz Cukierman Testimony (301/14). Original in Polish.
Testimony of Hersz Cukierman, who moved together with his family in 1939 to the village of Wólka Kątna. He was sent to the Opole Ghetto in April 1942 and describes the liquidation action at Nałęczów in May 1942. Cukierman was deported to the Sobibór…
The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, Kristallnacht Reports (coll. 1375), B. 307. Original in German.
A letter from an unidentified person and their mother after they emigrated from Czechoslovakia to New York City in December 1938 following the events of the November Pogrom. The author describes the destruction of synagogues and Jewish properties…
