Chana Kiner

Testimony of Chana Kiner, born in Lodz, Poland, 1928, regarding her experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, a camp near Bremen and Bergen-Belsen Religious family; attends a Jewish school; antisemitic propoganda; terminationn of studies with the outbreak of the war. Yellow badge; deportation to the Lodz Ghetto, 1940; ghetto life including labor in a uniform badge factory; death of relatives from disease and starvation; deportation of her relatives from the ghetto; birth of her brother, 1941; deportation of her grandfather and baby brother to extermination, 1942; detention of her father for illegal trading; death of her father in Mauthausen, March 1945; deportation with her mother to Auschwitz-Birkenau, 1944; transfer to a camp near Bremen; camp life including labor clearing rubble after air-raids and begging; disputes between female Jewish inmates from Poland and Hungary; transfer to Bergen-Belsen; camp life; illness of her mother; transfer with her mother by the Red Cross to recuperate in Sweden. Attends a Zionist school of the Hechalutz; aliya to Eretz Israel.