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, Eyewitness testimony Collection (coll. 1656), 633. Original in French. Translated for the Wiener Library by Sue Boswell.
Testimony of an anonymous Jewish refugee from Belgium. He was arrested on the street in Brussels in 1942 and interned in the Malines internment camp, before being taken by train to Russia, near Stalingrad. He was forced to work in a camp probably run…
Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, Holocaust Survivor Testimonies (coll. 301), Abraham Peller Testimony (301/1649). Original in Polish.
Testimony of Abraham Peller regarding the fate of the Jews of Biecz under the German occupation, describing executions and liquidation of the ghetto in August 1942. In February 1942, the author survived an execution in which his family perished and…
The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, Eyewitness testimony Collection (coll. 1656), 540. Original in German
Testimony of Julia (Maria) Abraham-Stern, a trained seamstress. Her husband and son were deported, while she and her daughter were sent to the Lwów Ghetto with her parents. Her mother committed suicide to allow her to go into hiding with her daughter…
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…
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.
Yad Vashem Archives, The Central Historical Commission of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the U.S. Zone (M.1.E), file no. 3540579. Original in Yiddish.
Testimony of Yeoshua Steinfeld regarding the murder of three children from the HASAG factory in Kielce on the banks of the Vistula River, March 1943.
Yad Vashem Archives, The Central Historical Commission of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the U.S. Zone (M.1.E), file no. 3540604. Original in Yiddish.
Testimony of Sheine Weiner regarding the transport from the Kaunas Ghetto to Riga, 1942.
