Documents found: 11

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    EHRI-ET-WL16560023
    1955
    The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, Eyewitness testimony Collection (coll. 1656), 23. Original in English.
    Testimony of “Miss X”, whose mother was “Aryan” and whose father was Jewish. Her parents divorced for personal reasons and her mother married an “Aryan”. She describes her school, not being allowed to go to university, having to absolve a…
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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…
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    EHRI-ET-WL16560939
    1958-07-01
    The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, Eyewitness testimony Collection (coll. 1656), 939. Original in German and in English (summary page).
    Interview with Helen Hirsch, the daughter of Christian parents. Her mother, Mrs. Meyer, managed a large boarding house in Teplitz/Teplice, where Hirsch spent her youth until she married Egon Hirsch, a Jewish insurance agent for the “Viktoria”…
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    EHRI-ET-WL05320171
    1940-02-08 | Suwałki
    The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, Persecution of Jews in Poland: reports and statements (coll. 532), 171. Original in Yiddish.
    Testimony of Suwałki resident and homeowner Pese R. on the transfer of power from the Soviets to the Germans, the subsequent German occupation of Suwałki, and incipient persecution of Jews. She retells her flight from Suwałki with her children being…
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    EHRI-ET-WL05320070
    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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    EHRI-ET-WL05320220
    1940-03-12 | Warsaw
    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…
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    EHRI-ET-WL05320200
    1940-02-22 | Goworowo
    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…
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    EHRI-ET-WL05320107
    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.
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    EHRI-ET-WL05320192
    1940-02-18 | Ostrów Mazowiecka
    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.
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    EHRI-ET-WL05320003
    1939-11-15 | Przasnysz
    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…