Yad Vashem Archives, Questionnaires filled out by children in the Foehrenwald DP camp, 1945-1946 (M.1), file no. 5082493.Original in English.
Questionnaire filled out by Sonja Holz (a child born in Vilna, Poland, in 1929) in Wolfratshausen the DP camp, about her experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, in Riga at the Kaiserwald camp, in Strassenhof working in an ammunitions factory, at Stutthof,…
The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, Persecution of Jews in Poland: reports and statements (coll. 532), 107. Original in Yiddish.
A long, very detailed report by a 38-year-old female social activist about the situation of Jews in Łódź (and surrounding towns) in the first months under German occupation. She left Łódź on December 30, 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…
Dos blut ruft tsu nekome (Moscow: Der emes, 1941), pp. 46–51. Original in Yiddish.
Report of D. Ravin on the persecution of Jews in Warsaw, the looting of Jewish property, forced labor, as well as the persecution and humiliation of Jews in smaller towns like Miechow, Minsk Mazowiecki, and Wawer. The report ends with a detailed…
Dos blut ruft tsu nekome (Moscow: Der emes, 1941), pp. 96–99. Original in Yiddish.
Report of R. H. Dagon providing detailed information on the persecution of Jews under German occupation in Przemysl as well as on massacres in Przemysl, Dynow, Milicz, and Jaroslaw.
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. 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.
The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, coll. 532, protocol no. 3. Original in Yiddish.
Testimony of a fifteen-year-old youth, recorded on 15 November 1939 and describing the German invasion of Wyszków and surrounding areas. Y. M. Sh. describes refugees, including many Jewish refugees, who fled from occupied areas into the village and…
The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, coll. 532, protocol no. 4. Original in Yiddish.
Testimony of Leyb Rozentsvayg, recorded on 14 October 1939 and describing his flight to Lublin and eventually Warsaw in an attempt to escape the German invasion. He describes the devastation wrought by bombardment and witnessed Jews being rounded up…
