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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

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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.
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3560524
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Chava
Eva
Khava
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Ben Nun
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Boehm
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04/07/1921
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Mikołów, Poland
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Testimony
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3846
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Hebrew
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O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives
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01/06/1975
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01/06/1975
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BEN NUN BOEHM, EVA CHAVA
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YES
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77
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ב-3492/316
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O.3 - Testimonies gathered by Yad Vashem
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Audio
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Moshal Repository, Yad Vashem Archival Collection