Documents found: 7

1. P. F., male, on the 1944 ghettoization and deportation of the Jews of Kassa to Auschwitz-Birkenau and his subsequent slave labour in the Nazi camp system

   

   EHRI-ET-DEGOB0086

   1945-06-18 | National Committee for Attending Deportees (DEGOB)

   Hungarian Jewish Archives, DEGOB, Protocol no. 86. Original in Hungarian.

   Testimony of the 18-year-old P.F. on his experiences in the Kassa/Košice Ghetto and in the Auschwitz, Wolfsberg, and Wüstegiersdorf concentration camps.

2. 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

   

   EHRI-ET-DEGOB0090

   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…

3. K. H., male, on his deportation from Hungary to Ukraine in 1941 and his deportation from Budapest in 1944 to Auschwitz-Birkenau

   

   EHRI-ET-DEGOB0651

   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…

4. Magda Szanto, life in Budapest in a 'Jewish house' then a Swiss safe house in 1944

   

   EHRI-ET-WL16560771

   1958

   The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, Eyewitness testimony Collection (coll. 1656), 771. Original in German.

   Account of Magda Szanto on the rapid decree of antisemitic regulations in Budapest and how they affected daily life, for example shopping and robbery by German soldiers and ethnic Germans. She describes the difficulties of communicating with her…

5. Y. P., traces his flight with his son from Warsaw to Włodawa and back

   

   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…

6. Maria Markovna Sokol, on her survival in occupied Kharkiv and surrounding villages

   

   EHRI-ET-SOV005

   1943-11 | Kharkiv

   Ilya Ehrenburg (ed.), Merder fun felker (Moscow: Der emes, 1944), pp. 10–18. Original in Yiddish.

   Report of Maria Markovna Sokol, an Ukrainian Jewish woman from Kharkiv, who recounts her survival under Nazi occupation in Kharkiv, imprisonment with all the Jews from Kharkiv in barracks outside the city, massacres of Jews, and how she ran away and…

7. A fifteen-year-old youth, on the German invasion of Wyszków and surrounding areas

   

   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…