1945-07-27 | National Committee for Attending Deportees (DEGOB)
Hungarian Jewish Archives, DEGOB, Protocol no. 2830. Original in Hungarian.
Testimony of 22-year-old R.S. on her family who were deported in the summer of 1941 from Subcarpathia, her experiences in the ghetto of Tab (Western Hungary), slave labor outside the ghetto, deportation from Kaposvár, her experiences in Birkenau and…
Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, Holocaust Survivor Testimonies (coll. 301), Ryszard Weidman Testimony (301/1116). Original in Polish.
Testimony of Ryszard Weidman, a child who was with his mother in the Warsaw Ghetto. He was smuggled out to the “Aryan side” where he hid with strangers, with his aunt and uncle coming to visit. After the defeat of the Warsaw Uprising, he and his aunt…
Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, Holocaust Survivor Testimonies (coll. 301), Mirka Winer Testimony (301/1169). Original in Polish.
Testimony of Mirka Winer on her imprisonment during WWII, executions in the Bełżyce Ghetto and deportations to Majdanek. The author and her family were hiding in an attic. They were deported to the camp in Budzyń, then to Majdanek and Auschwitz, and…
Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, Holocaust Survivor Testimonies (coll. 301), Róża Reibscheid Testimony (301/1713). Original in Polish.
Testimony of Róża Reibscheid regarding her hiding during WWII. She recalls the aid provided to her family by the Wawrzeńczyce parish priest, Fr. Wojciech Bartosik, and Buchowski, the owner of a neighboring estate, as well as blackmail, tip-offs,…
1946-01-04 | National Committee for Attending Deportees (DEGOB) | Budapest
Hungarian Jewish Archives, DEGOB, Protocol no. 3615. Original in Hungarian.
Testimony of 24-year-old Eszter Eppler on the Auschwitz Protocols, the Kasztner train, international rescue, and Zionist resistance activities in Budapest in 1944.
1946-01-10 | National Committee for Attending Deportees (DEGOB) | Budapest
Hungarian Jewish Archives, DEGOB, Protocol no. 3624. Original in Hungarian.
Testimony of the 45-year-old R.E. on her escape from a mass execution site on the bank of the Danube during the Arrow Cross era in Budapest in early January 1945.
1946-02-12 | National Committee for Attending Deportees (DEGOB) | Budapest
Hungarian Jewish Archives, DEGOB, Protocol no. 3648. Original in Hungarian.
Testimony of M. S., a conservative Zionist leader and a member of the Palestine Office on Zionist rescue activities in Budapest and the history of the “Glass House”.
Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, Holocaust Survivor Testimonies (coll. 301), Fischer Schaechter Testimony (301/201). Original in Polish.
Testimony of Fischer Schaechter on his deportation from Hungary to Ukraine in 1942 and his return. He was sent to the Nagyszollos Ghetto and later deported to Auschwitz, where he and his twin brother served as guinea pigs for medical experiments.
Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, Holocaust Survivor Testimonies (coll. 301), Dawid Kohane Testimony (301/191). Original in Polish.
Testimony of Dawid Kohane regarding the fate of Jews in Rzepiennik Strzyżowsk, where he returned from German captivity. He recalls the establishment of the ghetto, the looting of Jewish property, and the mass execution of Jews during the liquidation…
Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, Holocaust Survivor Testimonies (coll. 301), Leon Perelsztejn Testimony (301/106). Original in Polish.
Testimony of Leon Perelsztejn, who after his arrest in Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski was sent to the Treblinka extermination camp, where he was assigned to work at the tool house. He describes the crematoria and methods of burning corpses as well as his…
