Testimony of Chaya Chava (Guterman) Erlanger, born in Lodz, Poland, 1923, regarding her experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen

Testimony of Chaya Chava (Guterman) Erlanger, born in Lodz, Poland, 1923, regarding her experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen Orthodox family that owned a factory for down feathers; attends a public school; participation in the Batya organization. Outbreak of the war; German occupation; deportation to the Lodz Ghetto; death of her father and brother; ghetto life including secret studies; labor in a feather factory; curfew, Sperre "Aktion", 1942; detention in prison and rescue; life in hiding; capture and deportation to Auschwitz; camp life; transfer to Bergen-Belsen; camp life; liberation. Move to a hospital in Sweden; wanderings in Sweden with a group of young people from Hashomer Hatzair; joins a Hamizrachi group; travel in the direction of Eretz Israel on the "Chaim Arlozorov" ship and aliya attempt; detention in Cyprus by the British; detention camp life in Cyprus; aliya to Israel, 1948; adjustment.