Testimony of Chava Eva (Boehm) Ben Nun, born in Mikolow, Poland, 1921, regarding her experiences in the Oswiecim Ghetto, the Sosnowiec Ghetto, Annaberg and Peterswaldau

Testimony of Chava Eva (Boehm) Ben Nun, born in Mikolow, Poland, 1921, regarding her experiences in the Oswiecim Ghetto, the Sosnowiec Ghetto, Annaberg and Peterswaldau Life before the war; witness's mother is a widow who owns an electric appliance store; attends a private German school; attends a Polish high school; relations with the local population; move to Radom just before the outbreak of the war, 1939. Return to Mikolow after the German occupation; confiscation of the store; forced labor cleaning streets; deportation to the Oswiecim Ghetto; ghetto life; deportation to the Sosnowiec Ghetto; ghetto life including office labor for a commercial firm; social and cultural life for youth; deportation of her mother to an extermination camp, May 1942; labor as a secretary in a German agency that supplied forced labor; transfer to the Srodula Ghetto; deportation to Annaberg by train; camp life including cultural and social life; inmates put on plays before inmates; transfer to Peterswaldau; camp life including labor in a textile factory; liberation. Looting homes of Germans who fled; return to Mikolow; return of the family business; sells the business; escape to Germany; studies at a university in Munich; aliya attempt to Eretz Israel on the ship, "Shear Yishuv"; detention in Cyprus; aliya to Israel, July 1948.