Jewish Museum in Prague, Documents of Persecution, inv. no 80. Original in German.
Testimony of Walter Löbner, which became a part of the “documentation campaign” in Prague. Löbner was arrested by the Gestapo in April 1939 for his antifascist views and was imprisoned in the Sachsenhausen, Oranienburg, Auschwitz, and Dora…
1945-06-18 | National Committee for Attending Deportees (DEGOB)
Hungarian Jewish Archives, DEGOB, Protocol no. 5. Original in Hungarian.
Testimony of the 31-year-old B.E. on ghettoization in Nagyvárad/Oradea in 1944, her attempts to escape, looting and torture committed by the Hungarian gendarmerie, her deportation to and experiences in Auschwitz, slave labor in Riga and Magdeburg,…
1945-06-23 | National Committee for Attending Deportees (DEGOB) | Birkenau
Hungarian Jewish Archives, DEGOB, Protocol no. 90. Original in Hungarian.
Testimony of the 21-year-old E.G. on economic sanctions and discrimination before the German occupation, ghettoization in Nagyszőllős/Vinohradov, the behavior of the non-Jewish population, the deportation to and selection in Birkenau, his experiences…
1945-06-22 | National Committee for Attending Deportees (DEGOB) | Auschwitz
Hungarian Jewish Archives, DEGOB, Protocol no. 99. Original in Hungarian.
Testimony of the 39-year old R. H. on pre-1944 antisemitism and atrocities in Subcarpathia, deportation of her family from the Munkács brick factory, and her sufferings in the Auschwitz, Geislingen, and Allach concentration camps, liberation and her…
1945-07-04 | National Committee for Attending Deportees (DEGOB)
Hungarian Jewish Archives, DEGOB, Protocol no. 594. Original in Hungarian.
Testimony of K. E. and Fanny Grünzberger on the Kamenets-Podolsk deportations in 1941, ghettoization in Ungvár/Užhorod and deportation to Auschwitz in May 1944, and their suffering in the Bergen-Belsen and Salzwedel labor camps.
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…
The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, Kristallnacht Reports (coll. 1375), B. 327. Original in German.
Testimony of a Jewish business owner recorded shortly after the November Pogrom in 1938 describing the progression of laws that led to the destruction of his business (and those of other Jews), including the boycott of Jewish businesses and…
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.
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…
The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, coll. 532, protocol no. 10. Original in Yiddish.
Testimony of Shloyme Perkal, recorded on 12 November 1939 and describing his experiences in Międzyrzec Podlaski at the time of the German invasion of Poland, including bombardments and mass casualties as well as the arrival of refugees who fled other…
