Testimony of Chava Edith (Klein) Gantz, born in Sevlus, Czechoslovakia, 1922, regarding her experiences in the Sevlus Ghetto, Auschwitz, Theresienstadt, Wilischtahl camp, Birkenau and other places

Testimony of Chava Edith (Klein) Gantz, born in Sevlus, Czechoslovakia, 1922, regarding her experiences in the Sevlus Ghetto, Auschwitz, Theresienstadt, Wilischtahl camp, Birkenau and other places Life before the war; education in Chust; attends a Beit Yaakov school; her father's activities in the Mizrachi movement; Hashomer Hatzair membership. Annexation to Hungary, 1939; restrictions on the Jews and numerus clausus; draft of her father to a labor battalion; deportation of Jews to Kamenetz Podolski and Kolomea and their murder; German occupation, 1944; yellow badge; deportation to the Sevlus Ghetto; ghetto life; receives help from the Hungarians; deportation via train to Auschwitz-Birkenau; camp life; murder of her mother; transfer in open train cars to Wilischtahl; camp life including forced labor; rescue from death punishment; transfer to Theresienstadt; camp life; contracts typhus; liberation by the Red Army, May 1945; receives treatment from the Red Cross; move to Budapest; move to France via Austria; life in Austria; help to children within Youth Aliyah; aliya attempt; detention in Cyprus; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1947.