Testimony of Alexander Masek Mermelstein, born in Cinadovo, Czechoslovakia, 1919, regarding his experiences in Hungarian forced labor camps, Soviet forced labor camps, as a Czechoslovakian Army soldier in Novokhopersk, in combat in Dukla, Zilina and Vruts

Testimony of Alexander Masek Mermelstein, born in Cinadovo, Czechoslovakia, 1919, regarding his experiences in Hungarian forced labor camps, Soviet forced labor camps, as a Czechoslovakian Army soldier in Novokhopersk, in combat in Dukla, Zilina and Vruts 

Testimony of Alexander Masek Mermelstein, born in Cinadovo, Czechoslovakia, 1919, regarding his experiences in Hungarian forced labor camps, Soviet forced labor camps, as a Czechoslovakian Army soldier in Novokhopersk, in combat in Dukla, Zilina and Vruts 

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Testimony of Alexander Masek Mermelstein, born in Cinadovo, Czechoslovakia, 1919, regarding his experiences in Hungarian forced labor camps, Soviet forced labor camps, as a Czechoslovakian Army soldier in Novokhopersk, in combat in Dukla, Zilina and Vrutsky and in a Communist camp in Czechoslovakia, 1949-1953 Jewish community life in Cinadovo; Hungarian occupation; persecution of Jews in Hungarian occupied territories, 1940; life in Hungarian labor camps, 1941; abuse of Jewish inmates by Hungarian soldiers, 1943; transfer to labor camps; concentration of Czechoslovakian volunteers in the Krasnogorsk political prisoner camp; enlistment in the Czechoslovakian brigade in Novokhopersk; role of Jewish officers in the brigade; mobilization of Czechs from Volhynia, 1944; combat in Dukla, Zilina and Vrutky, 1944. Help from Jewish officers in organizing the Czechoslovakian Army, 1946; persecution of Jewish officers after 1948; false accusations; sentence to forced labor in uranium mines, 1949; escape to Israel, 1953; antisemitism during the war, in liberated Slovakia and during the Slansky Trials.