The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, Persecution of Jews in Poland: reports and statements (coll. 532), 220. Original in Yiddish.
Testimony of 26-year-old Yitskhok R., the head of a tannery in Warsaw, on the German bombardments and attacks on Warsaw and the situation of Jews there. On the day of the German invasion, he left for his hometown Puławy, passing through other…
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…
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.
Dos blut ruft tsu nekome (Moscow: Der emes, 1941), pp. 46–51. Original in Yiddish.
Report of D. Ravin on the persecution of Jews in Warsaw, the looting of Jewish property, forced labor, as well as the persecution and humiliation of Jews in smaller towns like Miechow, Minsk Mazowiecki, and Wawer. The report ends with a detailed…
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…