1945-07 | National Committee for Attending Deportees (DEGOB)
Hungarian Jewish Archives, DEGOB, Protocol no. 2719. Original in Hungarian.
Testimony of 19-year-old G.J. and 18-year-old G.R. on their experiences as members of the commando “Kanada” in Birkenau, and slave labor in the Reichenbach, Porta Fallersleben, and Salzwedel camps.
1945-07-27 | National Committee for Attending Deportees (DEGOB)
Hungarian Jewish Archives, DEGOB, Protocol no. 2830. Original in Hungarian.
Testimony of 22-year-old R.S. on her family who were deported in the summer of 1941 from Subcarpathia, her experiences in the ghetto of Tab (Western Hungary), slave labor outside the ghetto, deportation from Kaposvár, her experiences in Birkenau and…
Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, Holocaust Survivor Testimonies (coll. 301), Mirka Winer Testimony (301/1169). Original in Polish.
Testimony of Mirka Winer on her imprisonment during WWII, executions in the Bełżyce Ghetto and deportations to Majdanek. The author and her family were hiding in an attic. They were deported to the camp in Budzyń, then to Majdanek and Auschwitz, and…
Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, Holocaust Survivor Testimonies (coll. 301), Margot Landwirt Testimony (301/1538). Original in Polish.
Testimony of Margot Landwirt regarding her deportation in August 1944 from the Płaszów concentration camp to Auschwitz, the harsh living conditions in the camp, and selections. Landwirt was sent with a transport first to Bergen-Belsen and then to…
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.
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…
Ilya Ehrenburg (ed.), Merder fun felker (Moscow: Der emes, 1944), pp. 28–31. Original in Yiddish.
Testimony of Yefim Leynov, a Jewish Red Army soldier, who was imprisoned in four POW camps in Novgorod-Siverskyi, Babruysk, Gomel, and Minsk, and recounts his experiences as a POW in the camp in Minsk. He also relates the German treatment of Jewish…
Yad Vashem Archives, The Central Historical Commission of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the U.S. Zone (M.1.E), file no. 3540315. Original in Yiddish.
Testimony of Marta (Weissbrod) Rubinsztejn regarding her deportation from Lublin and life in the ghetto and the Belzyce labor camp.
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.
Yad Vashem Archives, The Central Historical Commission of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the U.S. Zone (M.1.E), file no. 3540549. Original in Yiddish.
Testimony of Rachel Amornik regarding her experiences during the final “Aktion” in the Miedzyerzec Podlaski Ghetto, forced labor in Majdanek, Skarzysko-Kamienna, and the HASAG camp in Leipzig, and a death march.
