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…
The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, Kristallnacht Reports (coll. 1375), B. 310. Original in German.
A series of letters written by Leni, a 12-year-old girl from Vienna, to a “Frau Z”, later referred to as “Auntie”. The letters discuss the difficulties of taking care of her young cousin Hans after the recent death of her parents and the…
The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, Eyewitness testimony Collection (coll. 1656), 44. Original in English.
Testimony of Johanna Frankel, a non-Jew “with some Jewish blood”, who first married to a non-Jew with a daughter born in 1920. She later married a Jew who had been in Buchenwald but emigrated to the UK in 1939. She describes discrimination at work.…
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.
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…
JHI, 301, Relacja Niusi Białoszer (301/317) Original in Yiddish.
Testimony of Niusia Białoszer on the capture of Vilnius by the Germans and the confiscation of Jewish shops and houses. She recalls the synagogue and ritual objects burning, the imposition of badges with the Star of David, and the early executions of…
