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…
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…
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.
Dos blut ruft tsu nekome (Moscow: Der emes, 1941), pp. 57–64. Original in Yiddish.
Report of Ber Mark on the first months of the German occupation of Warsaw. The Yiddish writer Ber Mark describes the deliberate bombardment of civilians, conditions of female and male, Jewish and non-Jewish forced laborers, rapes of especially young…
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…
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. 3540424. Original in Yiddish.
Testimony of Lea Adler regarding the liquidation of the labor camps in Zborow.
Yad Vashem Archives, The Central Historical Commission of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the U.S. Zone (M.1.E), file no. 3540469. Original in Yiddish.
Testimony of Rozia Shoshana Pinczewska regarding the betrayal of, cruelty towards, and murder of her family by Poles, and her survival.
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. 3540604. Original in Yiddish.
Testimony of Sheine Weiner regarding the transport from the Kaunas Ghetto to Riga, 1942.