Documents found: 7

  1. EHRI-ET-WL1375B189_01.jpg
    EHRI-ET-WL1375B189
    1938
    The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, Kristallnacht Reports (coll. 1375), B. 189. Original in German.
    Testimony of a 16-year-old male youth who escaped from Vienna in 1938. His report was forwarded to the JCIO in Amsterdam by Dora Prywes, Antwerp, c/o Menko Max Hirsch. He reports what he witnessed from 13 March 1938 onwards in Vienna, including…
  2. EHRI-ET-WL1375B327_01.jpg
    EHRI-ET-WL1375B327
    The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, Kristallnacht Reports (coll. 1375), B. 327. Original in German.
    Testimony of a Jewish business owner recorded shortly after the November Pogrom in 1938 describing the progression of laws that led to the destruction of his business (and those of other Jews), including the boycott of Jewish businesses and…
  3. EHRI-ET-WL16560176_01.jpg
    EHRI-ET-WL16560176
    The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, Eyewitness testimony Collection (coll. 1656), 176. Original in German.
    Detailed report of a teenage girl describing her flight from Prague to Slovakia with her mother after her father committed suicide. They escaped over the border in the summer of 1939 with help from members of the Gestapo (for payment). This is a very…
  4. 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…
  5. EHRI-ET-WL16560578_01.jpg
    EHRI-ET-WL16560578
    1958
    The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, Eyewitness testimony Collection (coll. 1656), 578. Original in German.
    Testimony of Alexander Szanto regarding the anti-Jewish laws in Hungary prior to the German occupation. He describes his experiences and impressions from Budapest.
  6. EHRI-ET-WL16560956_01.jpg
    EHRI-ET-WL16560956
    1957-08-01
    The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, Eyewitness testimony Collection (coll. 1656), 956. Original in German and in English (summary page).
    Interview with Miklos Fâbri, a resident of Ungvar (Czechoslovakia), which became part of Hungary in 1939. The Horthy government issued anti-Jewish laws, including the confiscation of Jewish property. Soon afterwards, Fâbri was sent to labor camps in…
  7. EHRI-ET-YV3549219_01.jpg
    EHRI-ET-YV3549219
    1947-07-18
    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. 3549219.Original in German.
    Two reports by Rosa Rachel Schwarz, a social worker in Vienna, about her experiences as head of the welfare department of the Jewish community after the German annexation, 1938–1940, especially about the organization of the Kindertransports. The file…