Jewish Museum in Prague, Terezín Collection, inv. no 343. Original in Czech.
Testimony of Heda Grabová, which became a part of the “documentation campaign” in Prague. Grabová describes the cultural life in the Theresienstadt Ghetto. As an opera singer she was involved in many operas and musical plays which took place in…
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,…
1945-06-18 | National Committee for Attending Deportees (DEGOB)
Hungarian Jewish Archives, DEGOB, Protocol no. 5. Original in Hungarian.
Testimony of the 31-year-old B.E. on ghettoization in Nagyvárad/Oradea in 1944, her attempts to escape, looting and torture committed by the Hungarian gendarmerie, her deportation to and experiences in Auschwitz, slave labor in Riga and Magdeburg,…
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…
1945-07-09 | National Committee for Attending Deportees (DEGOB)
Hungarian Jewish Archives, DEGOB, Protocol no. 701. Original in Hungarian.
Testimony of 30-year-old K. D. on her arrest right after the German occupation in March 1944 and her experiences in the Kistarcsa internment camp and the Auschwitz and St. Gheorgenthal concentration camps.
1945-07-04 | National Committee for Attending Deportees (DEGOB) | Kamenets-Podolsk
Hungarian Jewish Archives, DEGOB, Protocol no. 748. Original in Hungarian.
Testimony of 21-year-old I. Á. on the deportation of his family to Kamenets-Podolsk in 1941, the murder of his mother and siblings, his escape and return to Budapest, his labor service in the Hungarian Army, the deportation of his unit from Budapest…
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…
1945-07-13 | National Committee for Attending Deportees (DEGOB)
Hungarian Jewish Archives, DEGOB, Protocol no. 1459. Original in Hungarian.
Testimony of B.B. and B.J., both 24, on anti-Jewish atrocities in Munkács/Mukačevo before and after the German occupation, including the desecration of the synagogue on the so-called “Black Sabbath” in the spring of 1944, the ghetto and transit camp…
The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, Eyewitness testimony Collection (coll. 1656), 44. Original in English.
Testimony of Johanna Frankel, a non-Jew “with some Jewish blood”, who first married to a non-Jew with a daughter born in 1920. She later married a Jew who had been in Buchenwald but emigrated to the UK in 1939. She describes discrimination at work.…
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…
