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…
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.
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…
The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, Eyewitness testimony Collection (coll. 1656), 946. Original in German.
Statement of Erna Meyer about the murder of her brother Alfred, a dentist who was harassed by a leading Nazi, also a dentist, even before 1933. In 1933 the brother voluntarily went into police custody for a few weeks as persecution got worse. He then…
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.
Dos blut ruft tsu nekome (Moscow: Der emes, 1941), pp. 46–51. Original in Yiddish.
Report of D. Ravin on the persecution of Jews in Warsaw, the looting of Jewish property, forced labor, as well as the persecution and humiliation of Jews in smaller towns like Miechow, Minsk Mazowiecki, and Wawer. The report ends with a detailed…
Dos blut ruft tsu nekome (Moscow: Der emes, 1941), pp. 96–99. Original in Yiddish.
Report of R. H. Dagon providing detailed information on the persecution of Jews under German occupation in Przemysl as well as on massacres in Przemysl, Dynow, Milicz, and Jaroslaw.
Yad Vashem Archives, The Central Historical Commission of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the U.S. Zone (M.1.E), file no. 3540320. Original in Yiddish.
Testimony of Yerachmiel Kareb regarding the murder of Jews from the Swieciany area, the Poligon camp, and the murder of Jews in killing pits.
Yad Vashem Archives, The Central Historical Commission of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the U.S. Zone (M.1.E), file no. 3540377. Original in Yiddish.
Testimony of Sonia Jaffe regarding the murder of the laborers at the Kailis factory near the Vilna Ghetto in Ponary, 1944.
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…