There are a number of Holocaust survivors from Kańczuga that have recorded their testimonies of what happened during the war, in some fashion or another. This post is intended to be a list of those testimonies. None of these testimonies are available online, but by knowing that they exist, you figure out how to access them. Some are video testimonies from the Visual History Archive of the USC Shoah Foundation, where you can view them at partner libraries and museums. Some are written testimonies collected immediately after the war, and are collected at the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw. Not all of these testimonies are from people born in Kańczuga, but all mention Kańczuga at some point in their testimony.
Note that some of the testimonies are by the same people at different times. For example, the first two written testimonies were by Feige Rosenbluth before and after her marriage, and she later recorded a video testimony over 50 years later. Similarly there is a written testimony by Jakub Kesstecher shortly after the massacre in Kańczuga in 1945, and fifty years later with the name Bernard Schanzer.
If you are aware of other testimonies by Holocaust survivors that relate to Kańczuga, please contact me and I will add it to the list.
| Name | birth name | archive | Code | date | Photo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jakub Kesstecher | Jakub Kesstecher | JHI M49E | 4922 | Apr 21, 1945 |  |
| Fela Rozenbluth | Feige Rosenbluth | JHI M49E | 2931 | Oct 4, 1947 |  |
| Fela Walker | Feige Rosenbluth | JHI M49E | 2981 | Nov 15, 1947 |  |
| Irene Scharf | Irena Weinreb | USC SHOAH | 744 | Feb 01, 1995 |  |
| Bernard Schanzer | Jacob Rutter Kestecher | USC SHOAH | 4222 | Jul 23, 1995 |  |
| Diana Sternik | Grünbaum | USC SHOAH | 7340 | Dec 04, 1995 |  |
| Harry Charytan | Hersz Charytan | USC SHOAH | 16452 | Jun 24, 1996 |  |
| Bella Nussbaum | Bella Toby Goldman | USC SHOAH | 22203 | Nov 05, 1996 |  |
| Fay Walker | Feige Rosenbluth | USC SHOAH | 26878 | Mar 04, 1997 |  |
| Leo Rosen | Eliezer (Lazar) Rosenbluth | USC SHOAH | 26997 | Mar 04, 1997 |  |
| Nachum Schiffmann | Nathan Schiffmann | USC SHOAH | 37228 | Jan 20, 1998 |  |
| Anntoinette Laufer | Tauba Grossman | USC SHOAH | 48345 | Dec 17, 1998 |  |
| Joe Rosenbaum | Josef Rosenbaum | USC SHOAH | 53519 | Feb 10, 1994 |  |
| Frances Nightingale | Feyga Goldman | USC SHOAH | 54234 | Feb 28, 1994 |  |
When possible, the code field is a link to further information about the testimony.