Testimonies of 17 Jewish and non-Jewish female survivors who were liberated in Volary
Reference Code
1965001Number of documents
105
Scope and content
The often multi-page interviews/reports contain information on individual routes of persecution, as well as drastic descriptions of atrocities committed by the female and male SS personnel against the prisoners, mostly in the Flossenbürg subcamp Helmbrechts, as well as on the death march, and in Volary.
The original interviews are available with German and English translations.
Included are testimonies of the following witnesses:
1. Anni Keller describes acts of violence and executions and names SS men involved on the way to Volary via the Helmbrechts subcamp; English version: Doc ID 82108633-82108638; German translation: Doc ID 82108743-82108752.
2. Luba Beilovitz came to Volary in November 1944 from CC Auschwitz via the subcamps Schlesiersee, Grünberg and Helmbrechts. The interview contains descriptions of the supply situation / shootings and maltreatment by the SS / escape attempts / the "march situation"; English version: Doc ID 82108639-82108642; German translation: Doc ID 82108755-82108761.
3. Minna Singer; English version: Doc ID 82108655- 82108657; German translation: Doc ID 82108778- 82108782.
4. Anni Vogel first came to CC Auschwitz and from there via the Helmbrechts subcamp to Volary; English version: Doc ID 82108658- 82108659; German translation: Doc ID 82108782- 82108784.
5. Luba Federman, English version: Doc ID 82108660; German translation: Doc ID 82108784- 82108785.
6. Eda Banach, English version: Doc ID 82108661; German translation: Doc ID 82108785- 82108787.
7. Zisla Heidt came from CC Auschwitz to Volary via the subcamps Schlesiersee, Grünberg and Helmbrechts. The interview contains a description of an escape attempt by prisoners on the death march and their shooting; English version: Doc ID 82108662- 82108663; German translation: Doc ID 82108787-82108789.
8. Mina Repstein reports among other things about the shooting of her sister Fela Eisen in Volary; English version: Doc ID 82108664; German translation: Doc ID 82108789-82108790.
9. Rena Abraham reports among other things about the shooting of her daughter Rita Abraham on order of the head female overseer Hertha Haase; English version: Doc ID 82108664, German translation: Doc ID 82108790-82108791.
10. Mandula Risa; English version: Doc ID 82108665; German translation: Doc ID 82108791.
11. Halina Denisjück wrote her handwritten report in German on 04/23/1945 in the Helmbrechts subcamp (Doc ID 82108707-82108708). Also included is the typewritten transcription of the German version (Doc ID 82108802-82108803) and the typewritten translation into English (Doc ID 82108674).
12. Martha Hetmanova describes with drastic words the abuse of Jewish and non-Jewish female prisoners in the Helmbrechts subcamp, mention is made of the abuse resulting in the death of the Russian doctor Alexandra Jakrolen/Jakovlen a Samoylenko; English version: Doc ID 82108692-82108696; German translation: Doc ID 82108795-82108796.
13. Lise Drosdor, English version: Doc ID 82108697-82108700; German translation: Doc ID 82108797-82108798.
14. Alexandra Bobrowitzkaja describes abuse of female prisoners and the hanging of 2 women in CC Flossenbürg for attempted escape, English version: Doc ID 82108701-82108706; German translation: Doc ID 82108799-82108801.
15. Nina Kaydasch came to Germany in 1942 as a forced laborer and was sent to CC Ravensbrück "for sabotage". Original handwritten in German: Doc ID 82108709-82108711; transcription: Doc ID 82108804-82108806.
16. Schura (Alexandra) Kriwco[?], handwritten in German (Doc ID 82108712-82108714); transcription: Doc ID 82108807-82108808.
17 Natalia Morgun, handwritten in Russian (Doc ID 82108715-82108720); transcribed German translation: Doc ID 82108809-82108812.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Bayerische Landespolizei Kriminal-Außenstelle Hof
