Documents found: 13

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    EHRI-ET-WL1375B189
    1938
    The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, Kristallnacht Reports (coll. 1375), B. 189. Original in German.
    Testimony of a 16-year-old male youth who escaped from Vienna in 1938. His report was forwarded to the JCIO in Amsterdam by Dora Prywes, Antwerp, c/o Menko Max Hirsch. He reports what he witnessed from 13 March 1938 onwards in Vienna, including…
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    EHRI-ET-WL1375B307
    1938-12-29
    The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, Kristallnacht Reports (coll. 1375), B. 307. Original in German.
    A letter from an unidentified person and their mother after they emigrated from Czechoslovakia to New York City in December 1938 following the events of the November Pogrom. The author describes the destruction of synagogues and Jewish properties…
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    EHRI-ET-WL1375B310
    1939-02 | Vienna
    The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, Kristallnacht Reports (coll. 1375), B. 310. Original in German.
    A series of letters written by Leni, a 12-year-old girl from Vienna, to a “Frau Z”, later referred to as “Auntie”. The letters discuss the difficulties of taking care of her young cousin Hans after the recent death of her parents and the…
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    EHRI-ET-WL16560633
    1942-10-10 | Gerhard Riegner
    The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, Eyewitness testimony Collection (coll. 1656), 633. Original in French. Translated for the Wiener Library by Sue Boswell.
    Testimony of an anonymous Jewish refugee from Belgium. He was arrested on the street in Brussels in 1942 and interned in the Malines internment camp, before being taken by train to Russia, near Stalingrad. He was forced to work in a camp probably run…
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    EHRI-ET-WL1375B327
    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…
  6. EHRI-ET-WL16560176_01.jpg
    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…
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    EHRI-ET-WL16560421
    1957 | Theresienstadt
    The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, Eyewitness testimony Collection (coll. 1656), 421. Original in German. Translated for the Wiener Library by Irmgard Liste with Sue Boswell.
    Report by Dr. Karl Lowenstein of his arrest and imprisonment by the Russians in Prague after the war. He describes the living conditions in the Pankrác prison and Litoměřice (Leitmeritz) prison.
  8. EHRI-ET-WL16560458_01.jpg
    EHRI-ET-WL16560458
    1957
    The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, Eyewitness testimony Collection (coll. 1656), 458. Original in German.
    Testimony of Ursula Finke, who describes the increasing discrimination after 1933 and the blackmailing of her father. She finished school early and learned dressmaking. Finke was assigned to forced labor in a coat factory and moved to a “Jewish…
  9. EHRI-ET-WL16560578_01.jpg
    EHRI-ET-WL16560578
    1958
    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.
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    EHRI-ET-WL16560707
    The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, Eyewitness testimony Collection (coll. 1656), 707. Original in German.
    Testimony of Anita Wallfisch, who describes forced labor in a factory in which there were also French forced laborers and POWs. She and her sister organized fake papers for POWs to escape. Both were arrested. Wallfisch was sent to Breslau prison…