Documents found: 6

1. E. G., male, on the ghettoization in Nagyszőllős/Vinohradov, deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau, his experiences as a member of the “Kanada” commando and later slave labour in various camps

   

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   1945-06-23 | National Committee for Attending Deportees (DEGOB) | Birkenau

   Hungarian Jewish Archives, DEGOB, Protocol no. 90. Original in Hungarian.

   Testimony of the 21-year-old E.G. on economic sanctions and discrimination before the German occupation, ghettoization in Nagyszőllős/Vinohradov, the behavior of the non-Jewish population, the deportation to and selection in Birkenau, his experiences…

2. K. H., male, on his deportation from Hungary to Ukraine in 1941 and his deportation from Budapest in 1944 to Auschwitz-Birkenau

   

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   1945-07-03 | National Committee for Attending Deportees (DEGOB)

   Hungarian Jewish Archives, DEGOB, Protocol no. 651. Original in Hungarian.

   Testimony of 16-year-old K. H. on the deportation of his family to Kamenets-Podolsk in the summer of 1941, hiding in Kőrösmező/Yasina, finding shelter in a Jewish orphans’ home in Budapest, his arrest and deportation to Auschwitz, his experiences in…

3. W. R. and W. M., females, on the ghettoization and deportation of Jews from Nagyszőlős to Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1944 and their subsequent slave labour in the Nazi concentration camp system

   

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   1945-07-12 | National Committee for Attending Deportees (DEGOB)

   Hungarian Jewish Archives, DEGOB, Protocol no. 1359. Original in Hungarian.

   Testimony of 19-year-old W.M. and 17-year-old W.R. regarding the roundup of the Jewish community in Csepe (Subcarpathia), the Nagyszőllős (Vinohradov) Ghetto, a detailed description of the selection and extermination of prisoner transports in…

4. Karl Lowenstein, on his imprisonment by the Russians in Prague after the war

   

   EHRI-ET-WL16560421

   1957 | Theresienstadt

   The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, Eyewitness testimony Collection (coll. 1656), 421. Original in German. Translated for the Wiener Library by Irmgard Liste with Sue Boswell.

   Report by Dr. Karl Lowenstein of his arrest and imprisonment by the Russians in Prague after the war. He describes the living conditions in the Pankrác prison and Litoměřice (Leitmeritz) prison.

5. Emil Carlebach, Communist and other resistance in Buchenwald

   

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   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…

6. Max Mannheimer, experiences in the Netherlands, Theresienstadt and Auschwitz, 1933–1945

   

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   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.