1945-07-27 | National Committee for Attending Deportees (DEGOB)
Hungarian Jewish Archives, DEGOB, Protocol no. 2830. Original in Hungarian.
Testimony of 22-year-old R.S. on her family who were deported in the summer of 1941 from Subcarpathia, her experiences in the ghetto of Tab (Western Hungary), slave labor outside the ghetto, deportation from Kaposvár, her experiences in Birkenau and…
Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, Holocaust Survivor Testimonies (coll. 301), Lila Wowsi Testimony (301/81). Original in Polish.
Testimony of Ela Wowsi regarding the establishment of the Daugavpils Ghetto in July 1941, the liquidation actions in 1942, the mass executions during the final liquidation of the ghetto, and her imprisonment in the German concentration camps in Toruń…
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…
The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, Eyewitness testimony Collection (coll. 1656), 540. Original in German
Testimony of Julia (Maria) Abraham-Stern, a trained seamstress. Her husband and son were deported, while she and her daughter were sent to the Lwów Ghetto with her parents. Her mother committed suicide to allow her to go into hiding with her daughter…
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.
The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, Eyewitness testimony Collection (coll. 1656), 956. Original in German and in English (summary page).
Interview with Miklos Fâbri, a resident of Ungvar (Czechoslovakia), which became part of Hungary in 1939. The Horthy government issued anti-Jewish laws, including the confiscation of Jewish property. Soon afterwards, Fâbri was sent to labor camps in…
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. 3549219.Original in German.
Two reports by Rosa Rachel Schwarz, a social worker in Vienna, about her experiences as head of the welfare department of the Jewish community after the German annexation, 1938–1940, especially about the organization of the Kindertransports. The file…
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,…
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…
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.
