Jewish Museum in Prague, Documents of Persecution, inv. no 80. Original in Czech.
Testimony of the brothers Zdeněk and Jiří Steiner, which became a part of the “documentation campaign” in Prague. They were deported from Prague to the Theresienstadt Ghetto in September 1943, from where they were sent to the so-called family camp in…
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…
Jewish Museum in Prague, Documents of Persecution, inv. no 80. Original in German.
Testimony of Ulrich Arnheim, which became a part of the “documentation campaign” in Prague. Arnheim was deported from the Theresienstadt Ghetto to Auschwitz-Birkenau in the fall of 1944. He describes his shock upon arrival in the camp. After a few…
Jewish Museum in Prague, Documents of Persecution, inv. no 80. Original in German.
Testimony of Isaak Berner, which became a part of the “documentation campaign” in Prague. Berner describes the beginning of the Nazi occupation in Riga and the persecution of Jews that followed. In October 1941, Jews from Riga were forced to moved…
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…
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…
1945-07-04 | National Committee for Attending Deportees (DEGOB) | Kamenets-Podolsk
Hungarian Jewish Archives, DEGOB, Protocol no. 748. Original in Hungarian.
Testimony of 21-year-old I. Á. on the deportation of his family to Kamenets-Podolsk in 1941, the murder of his mother and siblings, his escape and return to Budapest, his labor service in the Hungarian Army, the deportation of his unit from Budapest…
1945-07-12 | National Committee for Attending Deportees (DEGOB)
Hungarian Jewish Archives, DEGOB, Protocol no. 1359. Original in Hungarian.
Testimony of 19-year-old W.M. and 17-year-old W.R. regarding the roundup of the Jewish community in Csepe (Subcarpathia), the Nagyszőllős (Vinohradov) Ghetto, a detailed description of the selection and extermination of prisoner transports in…
Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, Holocaust Survivor Testimonies (coll. 301), Estera Stern Testimony (301/965). Original in Polish.
Testimony of Estera Stern, who was taken from the Sosnowiec Ghetto in February 1943 to a labor camp in Parschnitz near Trutnov. She describes conditions in the camp and forced labor in the Trutnov textile factory. She was liberated by the Red Army on…
