Jacob B. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1357) interviewed by Marjorie Gordon and Barry Cohen,

Videotape testimony of Jacob B., who was born in Il'nitas, Czechoslovakia (now Ukraine) in 1922. He recalls moving to a small village in 1927; attending yeshivoth in a nearby town in Slovakia and in Munkacs; difficulties returning home after Hungarian occupation in 1938; abusive behavior by the police; increasing anti-Jewish restrictions; dealing on the black market to support his family; changing his last name to escape arrest; compulsory service in a Hungarian labor battalion from 1943 onward in Ózd, Mohács, Pécs, Komárom, and Budapest; efforts to observe the dietary laws; harsh conditions and lack of food; a forced march to Mauthausen, then Gunskirchen; and liberation by United States troops. Mr. B. recounts returning to Czechoslovakia; discovering his family had perished in Auschwitz; fleeing to the American zone; marriage; and emigration to the United States in 1949. Mr. B. details many incidents in forced labor and concentration camps and he shows a siddur (prayer book) which he retained throughout the war.