Documents found: 6

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    1940-02-08 | Suwałki
    The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, Persecution of Jews in Poland: reports and statements (coll. 532), 171. Original in Yiddish.
    Testimony of Suwałki resident and homeowner Pese R. on the transfer of power from the Soviets to the Germans, the subsequent German occupation of Suwałki, and incipient persecution of Jews. She retells her flight from Suwałki with her children being…
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    1940-03-12 | Warsaw
    The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, Persecution of Jews in Poland: reports and statements (coll. 532), 220. Original in Yiddish.
    Testimony of 26-year-old Yitskhok R., the head of a tannery in Warsaw, on the German bombardments and attacks on Warsaw and the situation of Jews there. On the day of the German invasion, he left for his hometown Puławy, passing through other…
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    1940-02-22 | Goworowo
    The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, Persecution of Jews in Poland: reports and statements (coll. 532), 200. Original in Yiddish.
    Testimony of a 21-year-old yeshiva student, originally from Goworowo but studying at a yeshiva in Białystok and Ostrów Mazowiecka at the outbreak of the war. Upon the German invasion of Poland, he returned to his hometown Goworowo and experienced the…
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    1940-02-18 | Ostrów Mazowiecka
    The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, Persecution of Jews in Poland: reports and statements (coll. 532), 192. Original in Yiddish.
    Combined testimony of two brothers from Ostrów Mazowiecka on the massacre of 561 Jews in their hometown committed by the Germans on November 9, 1939.
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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…
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    1939-11-16 | Bialystok
    The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, coll. 532, protocol no. 6. Original in Yiddish.
    Brief testimony of Leyb Blumberg, recorded on 16 November 1939 and describing his flight from Warsaw to Vilnius in October 1939, during which he and his fellow travelers were not bothered by German troops. They reached Vilnius without difficulty.