Jewish Museum in Prague, Terezín Collection, inv. no 343. Original is in German. Protocol is a Czech translation.
Testimony of Zeev Scheck, initiator of the “documentation campaign” in Prague. Scheck describes the situation of children in the Theresienstadt Ghetto and the role of Egon Redlich and Fredy Hirsch in the educational system of the ghetto, which he…
Jewish Museum in Prague, Terezín Collection, inv. no 343. Original in Czech.
Testimony of Edita Ornsteinová, which became a part of the “documentation campaign” in Prague. Ornsteinová describes the history of Theresienstadt from its beginning to the liberation of the ghetto by the Red Army. The core of her testimony revolves…
Jewish Museum in Prague, Terezín Collection, inv. no 343. Original in German.
Testimony of Heinrich Klang, which became a part of the “documentation campaign” in Prague. Klang was a chief judge of the ghetto court and a member of the Jewish Council in the Theresienstadt Ghetto. Klang describes the court system in…
1945-07-03 | National Committee for Attending Deportees (DEGOB)
Hungarian Jewish Archives, DEGOB, Protocol no. 651. Original in Hungarian.
Testimony of 16-year-old K. H. on the deportation of his family to Kamenets-Podolsk in the summer of 1941, hiding in Kőrösmező/Yasina, finding shelter in a Jewish orphans’ home in Budapest, his arrest and deportation to Auschwitz, his experiences in…
1945-07-21 | National Committee for Attending Deportees (DEGOB)
Hungarian Jewish Archives, DEGOB, Protocol no. 1178. Original in Hungarian.
Testimony of 18-year-old S .W. depicting ghettoization in Aknaszlatina/Slatina (Subcarpathia), deportation to and selection in Auschwitz, his suffering in the Buna-Monowitz labor camp and the youth block of the Buchenwald concentration camp, and his…
1945-07-12 | National Committee for Attending Deportees (DEGOB)
Hungarian Jewish Archives, DEGOB, Protocol no. 1359. Original in Hungarian.
Testimony of 19-year-old W.M. and 17-year-old W.R. regarding the roundup of the Jewish community in Csepe (Subcarpathia), the Nagyszőllős (Vinohradov) Ghetto, a detailed description of the selection and extermination of prisoner transports in…
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.
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…
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. 3549264.Original in English.
Personal report by Max Mannheimer, born in 1918, regarding his experiences in Amsterdam, The Hague, Westerbork, Theresienstadt, and Auschwitz.
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.
