Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, Holocaust Survivor Testimonies (coll. 301), Wolf Fajnsztadt Testimony (301/945). Original in Polish.
Testimony of Wolf Fajnsztadt, who was in Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski, regarding the resistance movement in the ghetto and attempts to obtain weapons. On July 26, 1944, a group of 29 young Jewish inmates escaped into the woods and undertook guerilla…
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…
The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, Persecution of Jews in Poland: reports and statements (coll. 532), 220. Original in Yiddish.
Testimony of 26-year-old Yitskhok R., the head of a tannery in Warsaw, on the German bombardments and attacks on Warsaw and the situation of Jews there. On the day of the German invasion, he left for his hometown Puławy, passing through other…
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…
Yad Vashem Archives, The Central Historical Commission of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the U.S. Zone (M.1.E), file no. 3540315. Original in Yiddish.
Testimony of Marta (Weissbrod) Rubinsztejn regarding her deportation from Lublin and life in the ghetto and the Belzyce labor camp.
Yad Vashem Archives, The Central Historical Commission of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the U.S. Zone (M.1.E), file no. 3540604. Original in Yiddish.
Testimony of Sheine Weiner regarding the transport from the Kaunas Ghetto to Riga, 1942.
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.
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…
