The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, Eyewitness testimony Collection (coll. 1656), 158. Original in German.
Testimony of Renate Lasker-Allais, who was deported to Auschwitz in December 1943 after one and a half years in prison. She was arrested for helping French POWs escape. She describes in detail life and death in Auschwitz. Lasker-Allais had knowledge…
The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, Eyewitness testimony Collection (coll. 1656), 707. Original in German.
Testimony of Anita Wallfisch, who describes forced labor in a factory in which there were also French forced laborers and POWs. She and her sister organized fake papers for POWs to escape. Both were arrested. Wallfisch was sent to Breslau prison…
The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, Eyewitness testimony Collection (coll. 1656), 771. Original in German.
Account of Magda Szanto on the rapid decree of antisemitic regulations in Budapest and how they affected daily life, for example shopping and robbery by German soldiers and ethnic Germans. She describes the difficulties of communicating with her…
The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, Eyewitness testimony Collection (coll. 1656), 946. Original in German.
Statement of Erna Meyer about the murder of her brother Alfred, a dentist who was harassed by a leading Nazi, also a dentist, even before 1933. In 1933 the brother voluntarily went into police custody for a few weeks as persecution got worse. He then…
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…
Dos blut ruft tsu nekome (Moscow: Der emes, 1941), pp. 96–99. Original in Yiddish.
Report of R. H. Dagon providing detailed information on the persecution of Jews under German occupation in Przemysl as well as on massacres in Przemysl, Dynow, Milicz, and Jaroslaw.
Yad Vashem Archives, The Central Historical Commission of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the U.S. Zone (M.1.E), file no. 3540320. Original in Yiddish.
Testimony of Yerachmiel Kareb regarding the murder of Jews from the Swieciany area, the Poligon camp, and the murder of Jews in killing pits.
Yad Vashem Archives, The Central Historical Commission of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the U.S. Zone (M.1.E), file no. 3540377. Original in Yiddish.
Testimony of Sonia Jaffe regarding the murder of the laborers at the Kailis factory near the Vilna Ghetto in Ponary, 1944.
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…
JHI, 301, Relacja Karola Tajgmana (301/5) Original in Yiddish.
Testimony of Karol Tajgman regarding the liquidation action in the Warsaw Ghetto and his deportation to the Treblinka extermination camp, from which he escaped during the revolt.
