The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, Persecution of Jews in Poland: reports and statements (coll. 532), 102. Original in Yiddish.
Report by Avrom R., a harvester from Łomża, about internment in a German prison camp in Rastenburg [Kętrzyn]. He highlights the bad relationship between Jews and Poles. In late September 1939, a thousand men were discharged from the camp and forced…
Yad Vashem Archives, The Ball-Kaduri Collection: Contemporary testimonies and reports regarding the Holocaust of the Jews of Germany and Central Europe, 1943-1960 (O.1), file no. 3549264.Original in English.
Personal report by Max Mannheimer, born in 1918, regarding his experiences in Amsterdam, The Hague, Westerbork, Theresienstadt, and Auschwitz.
The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, Persecution of Jews in Poland: reports and statements (coll. 532), 200. Original in Yiddish.
Testimony of a 21-year-old yeshiva student, originally from Goworowo but studying at a yeshiva in Białystok and Ostrów Mazowiecka at the outbreak of the war. Upon the German invasion of Poland, he returned to his hometown Goworowo and experienced the…
The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, Persecution of Jews in Poland: reports and statements (coll. 532), 107. Original in Yiddish.
A long, very detailed report by a 38-year-old female social activist about the situation of Jews in Łódź (and surrounding towns) in the first months under German occupation. She left Łódź on December 30, 1939.
Dos blut ruft tsu nekome (Moscow: Der emes, 1941), pp. 57–64. Original in Yiddish.
Report of Ber Mark on the first months of the German occupation of Warsaw. The Yiddish writer Ber Mark describes the deliberate bombardment of civilians, conditions of female and male, Jewish and non-Jewish forced laborers, rapes of especially young…
Yad Vashem Archives, The Central Historical Commission of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the U.S. Zone (M.1.E), file no. 3540469. Original in Yiddish.
Testimony of Rozia Shoshana Pinczewska regarding the betrayal of, cruelty towards, and murder of her family by Poles, and her survival.
Yad Vashem Archives, The Central Historical Commission of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the U.S. Zone (M.1.E), file no. 3540579. Original in Yiddish.
Testimony of Yeoshua Steinfeld regarding the murder of three children from the HASAG factory in Kielce on the banks of the Vistula River, March 1943.
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.
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…
The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, coll. 532, protocol no. 4. Original in Yiddish.
Testimony of Leyb Rozentsvayg, recorded on 14 October 1939 and describing his flight to Lublin and eventually Warsaw in an attempt to escape the German invasion. He describes the devastation wrought by bombardment and witnessed Jews being rounded up…