Testimony of Joseph Yehezkel Rof Feldinger, born in Mukacevo, Czechoslovakia, 1929, regarding his experiences in Mukacevo, deportation to the Mukacevo Ghetto, to Auschwitz Birkenau, and to Mauthausen

Childhood in Mukacevo; his father sells animal skins; attends a "cheder" and an elementary school; Hungarian rule in 1939; attending a Hungarian school; Aryanization of his father's business; occupation of Hungary in March 1944; departure of his mother with his oldest sister to Budapest; return of his mother; expulsion of the family to the Mukacevo Ghetto; housing in a brick factory and labor in the factory; deportation by train to Auschwitz; selection; parting from his mother and sisters; parting from his father; news regarding the extermination of his parents and some of his family members; Prisoner Number: B14670; life in Birkenau in Barrack number 17 in overcrowded conditions; labor in the kitchen; forced march from the camp through forests at the end of 1944; transfer by train to Mauthausen; liberation by the US Army; return to Mukacevo; move to Budapest; move to a DP camp in Bari and to other places in Italy; emigration to the United States, to New York.