Testimony of Chana (A---) Sabovitz, born in Polana, Czechoslovakia, 1920, regarding her experiences in the Mukacevo Ghetto, Auschwitz and Weisswasser

Testimony of Chana (Alter) Sabovitz, born in Polana, Czechoslovakia, 1920, regarding her experiences in the Mukacevo Ghetto, Auschwitz and Weisswasser From a religious family; life before the war. Draft of her brother to a labor battalion; arrival of refugees from Poland; cancellation of business licenses, 1942; confiscation of possessions; German occupation, 1944; concentration of the Jews in the local school; deportation to the Mukacevo Ghetto, 1944; deportation to Auschwitz; camp life including labor sorting the clothing of deportees; support of her sisters; her sister's illness; labor making braids from cloth; transfer to Weisswasser, December 1944; camp life including labor in a radio factory; meets POWs in the camp; liberation by the Red Army, 08 May 1945. Return home; wanderings along the aliya routes to Eretz Israel with Bnei Akiva; aliya to Eretz Israel, December 1945; establishment of a kibbutz near Petach Tikva.