Jewish Museum in Prague, Terezín Collection, inv. no 343. Original in Czech.
Testimony of Edita Ornsteinová, which became a part of the “documentation campaign” in Prague. Ornsteinová describes the history of Theresienstadt from its beginning to the liberation of the ghetto by the Red Army. The core of her testimony revolves…
Jewish Museum in Prague, Documents of Persecution, inv. no 80. Original in Czech.
Testimony of Ruth Morgensternová, which became a part of the “documentation campaign” in Prague. She describes her fate from November 1942 onwards, when she was deported from the Theresienstadt Ghetto, until the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen…
1945-12-19 | Regina Lebensfeldová-Hofstädterová | Bratislava
Jewish Museum in Prague, Documents of Persecution, inv. no 80. Original in German.
Testimony of Regina Lebensfeldová-Hofstädterová, which became a part of the “documentation campaign” in Prague. Lebensfeldová-Hofstädterová was deported from Bratislava to Auschwitz-Birkenau in the summer of 1942. She describes the arrival of the…
Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, Holocaust Survivor Testimonies (coll. 301), Rutka Hirschberg Testimony (301/1129). Original in Polish.
Testimony of Rutka Hirschberg regarding her fate in the Drohobych Ghetto, the outbreak of the German-Soviet war, Ukrainian pogroms, and the introduction of armbands for Jews. The author was taken to a camp for girls, worked in the roof tile workshop,…
Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, Holocaust Survivor Testimonies (coll. 301), Dwojra Szczucińska Testimony (301/2). Original in Polish.
Testimony of Dwojra Szczuczyńska on the “Hotel Polski affair”, a Gestapo trap resulting in the death of about 3000 Jews who left their hiding places on the “Aryan side”, with specific reference to the role of Lolek Skosowski, a Gestapo agent.
Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, Holocaust Survivor Testimonies (coll. 301), Marta Klein Testimony (301/12). Original in Polish.
Testimony of Marta Klein on the actions against Jews in Vilnius and Białystok and deportations to Treblinka, her escape en route to the camp, her rescue by a Pole, Czuliński, and the arrest of her son and his protector after their betrayal.
The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, Kristallnacht Reports (coll. 1375), B. 189. Original in German.
Testimony of a 16-year-old male youth who escaped from Vienna in 1938. His report was forwarded to the JCIO in Amsterdam by Dora Prywes, Antwerp, c/o Menko Max Hirsch. He reports what he witnessed from 13 March 1938 onwards in Vienna, including…
The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, Kristallnacht Reports (coll. 1375), B. 307. Original in German.
A letter from an unidentified person and their mother after they emigrated from Czechoslovakia to New York City in December 1938 following the events of the November Pogrom. The author describes the destruction of synagogues and Jewish properties…
The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, Kristallnacht Reports (coll. 1375), B. 310. Original in German.
A series of letters written by Leni, a 12-year-old girl from Vienna, to a “Frau Z”, later referred to as “Auntie”. The letters discuss the difficulties of taking care of her young cousin Hans after the recent death of her parents and the…
Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, Holocaust Survivor Testimonies (coll. 301), Abraham Peller Testimony (301/1649). Original in Polish.
Testimony of Abraham Peller regarding the fate of the Jews of Biecz under the German occupation, describing executions and liquidation of the ghetto in August 1942. In February 1942, the author survived an execution in which his family perished and…
