Documents found: 9

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    EHRI-ET-ZIH3011129
    Rutka Hirschberg
    Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, Holocaust Survivor Testimonies (coll. 301), Rutka Hirschberg Testimony (301/1129). Original in Polish.
    Testimony of Rutka Hirschberg regarding her fate in the Drohobych Ghetto, the outbreak of the German-Soviet war, Ukrainian pogroms, and the introduction of armbands for Jews. The author was taken to a camp for girls, worked in the roof tile workshop,…
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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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    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.
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    EHRI-ET-WL05320070
    1939-12-16 | Warsaw
    The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, Persecution of Jews in Poland: reports and statements (coll. 532), 70. Original in Yiddish.
    Testimony of 48-year-old Y. P., administrator of a newspaper in Warsaw, tracing his flight with his son from Warsaw to Włodawa and back to Warsaw, passing through several cities and shtetlekh together with streams of refugees. Y. P. relates in detail…
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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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    1940-01-05 | Łódź
    The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, Persecution of Jews in Poland: reports and statements (coll. 532), 107. Original in Yiddish.
    A long, very detailed report by a 38-year-old female social activist about the situation of Jews in Łódź (and surrounding towns) in the first months under German occupation. She left Łódź on December 30, 1939.
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    1939-11-15 | Przasnysz
    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…
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    EHRI-ET-WL05320004
    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…
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    EHRI-ET-ZIH3010025
    1945 | Głębokie/Hlyboke
    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…