The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, Kristallnacht Reports (coll. 1375), B. 189. Original in Dutch.
Report of a courier of the Dutch Children’s Committee about her experiences in the “Aktion Gildemeester”, a Nazi-run operation to evacuate Jews from Vienna, and the Swedish Mission. She writes about the difficulties surrounding the transport of…
The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, Eyewitness testimony Collection (coll. 1656), 23. Original in English.
Testimony of “Miss X”, whose mother was “Aryan” and whose father was Jewish. Her parents divorced for personal reasons and her mother married an “Aryan”. She describes her school, not being allowed to go to university, having to absolve a…
The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, Kristallnacht Reports (coll. 1375), B. 327. Original in German.
Testimony of a Jewish business owner recorded shortly after the November Pogrom in 1938 describing the progression of laws that led to the destruction of his business (and those of other Jews), including the boycott of Jewish businesses and…
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.
The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, Eyewitness testimony Collection (coll. 1656), 866. Original in German. Translated by Irmgard Liste Sue Boswell.
A report by Elisabeth Zadek on rescue work of children of all nationalities who survived concentration camps in Europe. Their ages ranged from 3 to 7 years. She was cared for by Alice Goldberger and Anna Freud.
Yad Vashem Archives, The Ball-Kaduri Collection: Contemporary testimonies and reports regarding the Holocaust of the Jews of Germany and Central Europe, 1943-1960 (O.1), file no. 3549264.Original in English.
Personal report by Max Mannheimer, born in 1918, regarding his experiences in Amsterdam, The Hague, Westerbork, Theresienstadt, and Auschwitz.
Yad Vashem Archives, The Ball-Kaduri Collection: Contemporary testimonies and reports regarding the Holocaust of the Jews of Germany and Central Europe, 1943-1960 (O.1), file no. 5245989.Original in German.
Report by the couple Rosa and Koppel Friedfertig from Hamburg about their experiences during the “Polenaktion” in 1938, the forced eviction of Jews with Polish citizenship from Germany to Poland, with a description of the living conditions in the…
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…
Ilya Ehrenburg (ed.), Merder fun felker (Moscow: Der emes, 1944), pp. 28–31. Original in Yiddish.
Testimony of Yefim Leynov, a Jewish Red Army soldier, who was imprisoned in four POW camps in Novgorod-Siverskyi, Babruysk, Gomel, and Minsk, and recounts his experiences as a POW in the camp in Minsk. He also relates the German treatment of Jewish…
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.
