Documents found: 6

1. Šlomo Fuchs, Chaim Schwarzwald and Hermann Przewoznik, the killing machinery in Auschwitz-Birkenau

   

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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.…

2. Karel Abeles, on escape from Teplice, imprisonment in Łódź, Auschwitz and Gusen

   

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   1945-08-16 | Karel Abeles (later name Brožík) | Prague

   Jewish Museum in Prague, Documents of Persecution, inv. no 80. Original in Czech.

   Testimony of Karel Abeles (later name Brožík), which became a part of the “documentation campaign” in Prague. Abeles describes being forced to leave his hometown Teplice in the Czechoslovak borderland in the fall of 1938. His family moved to Prague,…

3. E. G., male, on the ghettoization in Nagyszőllős/Vinohradov, deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau, his experiences as a member of the “Kanada” commando and later slave labour in various camps

   

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   1945-06-23 | National Committee for Attending Deportees (DEGOB) | Birkenau

   Hungarian Jewish Archives, DEGOB, Protocol no. 90. Original in Hungarian.

   Testimony of the 21-year-old E.G. on economic sanctions and discrimination before the German occupation, ghettoization in Nagyszőllős/Vinohradov, the behavior of the non-Jewish population, the deportation to and selection in Birkenau, his experiences…

4. Meier Lenc, the experiences of the Sokal dweller in the ghetto, in hiding and in the Soviet partisan unit

   

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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…

5. Dwojra Szczuczyńska, the „Hotel Polski” affair in Warsaw

   

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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.

6. Anonymous Jewish male youth, flight from Vienna in 1938 and experiences of antisemitic persecution leading up to it

   

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   1938

   The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, Kristallnacht Reports (coll. 1375), B. 189. Original in German.

   Testimony of a 16-year-old male youth who escaped from Vienna in 1938. His report was forwarded to the JCIO in Amsterdam by Dora Prywes, Antwerp, c/o Menko Max Hirsch. He reports what he witnessed from 13 March 1938 onwards in Vienna, including…