Documents found: 4

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    EHRI-ET-WL16560413
    1948-05-28
    The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, Eyewitness testimony Collection (coll. 1656), 413. Original in German and English (summary page).
    Testimony of Emil Carlebach, a communist activist from a prominent rabbinical family. He was instrumental in the resistance in Buchenwald. Carlebach describes corruption amongst the guards, how political prisoners gained a certain control over the…
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    EHRI-ET-WL05320070
    1939-12-16 | Warsaw
    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…
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    EHRI-ET-SOV004
    1941 | Łódź
    Dos blut ruft tsu nekome (Moscow: Der emes, 1941), pp. 100–104. Original in Yiddish.
    Report of Moyshe Broderzon the Yiddish writer, who analyzes the German methods of torture and humiliation of Jews in occupied Poland.
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    1943-11 | Kharkiv
    Ilya Ehrenburg (ed.), Merder fun felker (Moscow: Der emes, 1944), pp. 10–18. Original in Yiddish.
    Report of Maria Markovna Sokol, an Ukrainian Jewish woman from Kharkiv, who recounts her survival under Nazi occupation in Kharkiv, imprisonment with all the Jews from Kharkiv in barracks outside the city, massacres of Jews, and how she ran away and…