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.