Testimony of Chawa (Wieldsztein) Karawan, born in Krakow, Poland, 1920, regarding her experiences in Majdanek, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Gross-Rosen, Bergen-Belsen and other places

Testimony of Chawa (Wieldsztein) Karawan, born in Krakow, Poland, 1920, regarding her experiences in Majdanek, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Gross-Rosen, Bergen-Belsen and other places Life before the war; education; Beitar activities. Her family's move to Tarnow with the outbreak of the war; move to Hrubieszow; life in Hrubieszow including labor in the homes of German officers; detention in a prison for political offenders after being informed on; transfer to Majdanek, 1942; camp life including labor in stone quarries; help from a German; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau, 1943; camp life including futile work transferring rocks from one place to another; typhus; transfer to Gross-Rosen, 1944; camp life, including labor manufacturing cotton; escape from the deportation train to Bergen-Belsen; escape to Wittelsdorf; life on a farm; liberation by the Red Army. Wild behavior of Red Army soldiers; return to Krakow; joins a group involved with preparations for aliya to Eretz Israel; move to DP camps in Austria, 1946; aliya attempt on the ship, "Kadima"; detention in Cyprus, aliya to Israel, 1948; marriage.