Ernest B. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1051) interviewed by Bernard Weinstein,

Videotape testimony of Ernest B., who was born in Debradʹ, Czechoslovakia in 1920. He recounts moving to another village when he was three; fighting back against anti-Jewish violence; attending Catholic school; his father's death when he was thirteen; Hungarian occupation; moving to Budapest to support his mother and siblings; draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion in 1943; assignment to a uniform factory; German occupation in 1944; learning his mother had been ghettoized (she did not survive); friends assisting him to alter his documents to show him as Catholic; posing as a Nazi; warning Jews of round-ups; working for Raoul Wallenberg, guarding Swedish safe houses as a "Nazi"; helping Wallenberg distribute protection papers to Jews; locating his brother in a labor battalion; bringing him to a safe house; incarceration with his brother; transport to Mauthausen; escaping with his brother and Slovak POWs; liberation by United States troops; his brother's death five days later; learning his sister had survived; returning home; marriage; emigration to Israel; the births of two daughters; and emigration to the United States. Mr. B. expresses great admiration for Wallenberg.