Documents found: 6

1. B. E., female, on the deportation of Jews from Nagyvárad to Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1944 and her slave labour in other Nazi concentration camps

   

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   1945-06-18 | National Committee for Attending Deportees (DEGOB)

   Hungarian Jewish Archives, DEGOB, Protocol no. 5. Original in Hungarian.

   Testimony of the 31-year-old B.E. on ghettoization in Nagyvárad/Oradea in 1944, her attempts to escape, looting and torture committed by the Hungarian gendarmerie, her deportation to and experiences in Auschwitz, slave labor in Riga and Magdeburg,…

2. E. G., male, on the ghettoization in Nagyszőllős/Vinohradov, deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau, his experiences as a member of the “Kanada” commando and later slave labour in various camps

   

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   1945-06-23 | National Committee for Attending Deportees (DEGOB) | Birkenau

   Hungarian Jewish Archives, DEGOB, Protocol no. 90. Original in Hungarian.

   Testimony of the 21-year-old E.G. on economic sanctions and discrimination before the German occupation, ghettoization in Nagyszőllős/Vinohradov, the behavior of the non-Jewish population, the deportation to and selection in Birkenau, his experiences…

3. I. Á., male, on his deportation from Hungary to Ukraine in 1941, his labour service in the Hungarian army in 1943–1944 and his deportation from Budapest to Sachsenhausen at the end of 1944

   

   EHRI-ET-DEGOB0748

   1945-07-04 | National Committee for Attending Deportees (DEGOB) | Kamenets-Podolsk

   Hungarian Jewish Archives, DEGOB, Protocol no. 748. Original in Hungarian.

   Testimony of 21-year-old I. Á. on the deportation of his family to Kamenets-Podolsk in 1941, the murder of his mother and siblings, his escape and return to Budapest, his labor service in the Hungarian Army, the deportation of his unit from Budapest…

4. Renate Lasker-Allais, experiences of Auschwitz-Birkenau from December 1943 with her sister, Anita Lasker

   

   EHRI-ET-WL16560158

   1955

   The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, Eyewitness testimony Collection (coll. 1656), 158. Original in German.

   Testimony of Renate Lasker-Allais, who was deported to Auschwitz in December 1943 after one and a half years in prison. She was arrested for helping French POWs escape. She describes in detail life and death in Auschwitz. Lasker-Allais had knowledge…

5. Gertrud Karsten, flight from Prague with her mother in 1939

   

   EHRI-ET-WL16560176

   The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, Eyewitness testimony Collection (coll. 1656), 176. Original in German.

   Detailed report of a teenage girl describing her flight from Prague to Slovakia with her mother after her father committed suicide. They escaped over the border in the summer of 1939 with help from members of the Gestapo (for payment). This is a very…

6. Emil Carlebach, Communist and other resistance in Buchenwald

   

   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…