Documents found: 18

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    1945-11 | Hermann Przewoznik | Zeilsheim
    Jewish Museum in Prague, Documents of Persecution, inv. no 80. Original in Czech.
    Extensive testimony of Przewoznik, Fuchs, and Schwarzwald, three former Polish prisoners of the Auschwitz concentration camp, which was written in the DP camp Zeilsheim near Frankfurt am Main by co-workers of the “documentation campaign” in Prague.…
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    Wolf Fajnsztadt
    Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, Holocaust Survivor Testimonies (coll. 301), Wolf Fajnsztadt Testimony (301/945). Original in Polish.
    Testimony of Wolf Fajnsztadt, who was in Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski, regarding the resistance movement in the ghetto and attempts to obtain weapons. On July 26, 1944, a group of 29 young Jewish inmates escaped into the woods and undertook guerilla…
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    1945-10-31 | Ryszard Weidman
    Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, Holocaust Survivor Testimonies (coll. 301), Ryszard Weidman Testimony (301/1116). Original in Polish.
    Testimony of Ryszard Weidman, a child who was with his mother in the Warsaw Ghetto. He was smuggled out to the “Aryan side” where he hid with strangers, with his aunt and uncle coming to visit. After the defeat of the Warsaw Uprising, he and his aunt…
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    1945-11-15 | Mirka Winer
    Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, Holocaust Survivor Testimonies (coll. 301), Mirka Winer Testimony (301/1169). Original in Polish.
    Testimony of Mirka Winer on her imprisonment during WWII, executions in the Bełżyce Ghetto and deportations to Majdanek. The author and her family were hiding in an attic. They were deported to the camp in Budzyń, then to Majdanek and Auschwitz, and…
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    1945-09-04 | Mejer Lencow
    Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, Holocaust Survivor Testimonies (coll. 301), Mejer Lencow Testimony (301/805). Original in Polish.
    Testimony of Meier Lenc, who lived in the Sokal Ghetto until its liquidation and then escaped to the “Aryan side”. He was captured by German police and later ran away from the grave he had been forced to dig for himself. He spent several months in…
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    1945-03-09 | Leon Perelsztejn
    Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, Holocaust Survivor Testimonies (coll. 301), Leon Perelsztejn Testimony (301/106). Original in Polish.
    Testimony of Leon Perelsztejn, who after his arrest in Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski was sent to the Treblinka extermination camp, where he was assigned to work at the tool house. He describes the crematoria and methods of burning corpses as well as his…
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    1944-09-17 | Hersz Cukierman
    Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, Holocaust Survivor Testimonies (coll. 301), Hersz Cukierman Testimony (301/14). Original in Polish.
    Testimony of Hersz Cukierman, who moved together with his family in 1939 to the village of Wólka Kątna. He was sent to the Opole Ghetto in April 1942 and describes the liquidation action at Nałęczów in May 1942. Cukierman was deported to the Sobibór…
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    1944-09-04 | Dwojra Szczucińska
    Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, Holocaust Survivor Testimonies (coll. 301), Dwojra Szczucińska Testimony (301/2). Original in Polish.
    Testimony of Dwojra Szczuczyńska on the “Hotel Polski affair”, a Gestapo trap resulting in the death of about 3000 Jews who left their hiding places on the “Aryan side”, with specific reference to the role of Lolek Skosowski, a Gestapo agent.
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    1939-12-16 | Warsaw
    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…
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    1940-01-05 | Łódź
    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.