Documents found: 8

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    EHRI-ET-WL16560158
    1955
    The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, Eyewitness testimony Collection (coll. 1656), 158. Original in German.
    Testimony of Renate Lasker-Allais, who was deported to Auschwitz in December 1943 after one and a half years in prison. She was arrested for helping French POWs escape. She describes in detail life and death in Auschwitz. Lasker-Allais had knowledge…
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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.
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    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…
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    EHRI-ET-WL16560540
    1957
    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…
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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”…
  6. EHRI-ET-WL16560956_01.jpg
    EHRI-ET-WL16560956
    1957-08-01
    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…
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    EHRI-ET-YV3549466
    1958-04
    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. 3549466.Original in German.
    Testimony and report of Ernestine Rosengarten, a survivor from Chernivtsi, about the fate of her son Heinz in the camp Tarasivka, Ukraine. The file includes various letters by members of Rosengarten’s family and by Dr. Ball-Kaduri, plus several other…
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    EHRI-ET-YV3552513
    1947-08-22 | Saukenai
    Yad Vashem Archives, Koniuchowsky Collection: Testimonies Regarding the Holocaust of Lithuanian Jewry, 1945-1981 The Central Historical Commission of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the U.S. Zone (O.71), file no. 3552513. Original in Yiddish.
    Testimony of Loyba Klar regarding her experiences in hiding in Šaukėnai, Žagarė, Užventis, and Šiauliai, and in camps in Germany.