Testimony of Ervin David Berger, born in Sumice, Czechoslovakia, 1912, regarding the history of the Jewish community in Uhersky Brod Born in Sumice; works in the Jewish community in Uhersky Brod; member of the Council of Jewish Communities in Prague of which philanthropist Albert Schweiger [and not Albert Schweitzer, as written on the English summary page that appears in the multimedia] is also a member; history of the community in Uhersky Brod: community life 1938-1949. At the outbreak of the war, prominent Jews are deported to Nazi concentration camps; Jewish Youth Defense activities; youth organizations: Hashomer Hatzair, Techelet Lavan; arrangement of flights for Jews and non-Jews to military units supported by the Czech government in exile by illegal groups; Uhersky Brod becomes the concentration point for deportations to Theresienstadt for Jews from Hodonin, Straznice, Veseli na Morave, Breclav, Kyjov and more; deportation and liquidation of the Jewish community, 1943; behavior of non-Jews; names of Jewish community members sentenced and executed for their resistance activities, 1943; participation in the Slovak National Uprising [August 1944]. 30 survivors return and restore the Community, 1945; due to increasing antisemitism among the Communists, aliya of most of the Community members to Israel, after 1948. Information provided regarding: Dr. Zalman Nuerenberger, Dr. Felix Brunn, Eduard Brief, Kurt Rosenfeld, Samuel Bachner, Leo Smetana, J. Polak, Adler, Walter Berger, Luhan, Gazdik, Hrib, Arnost Kahn, Vitezslav Kien, Havranek, Schweiger, Roth, Erich Manheimer, Arnost Schoen, Erwin Loewy, Reiss, Adolf Rosenfeld, Ilse Jelinkova, Leo Beck, Kortner, Paul Reichsfeld, Adolf Reichsfeld, Luza, Kornerova, Beckova, Max Buechler, Otto Steiner, Dr. Fleischmann, Jockel.