Chajka Klinger was born on September 25, 1917, in the city of Będzin in the Zaglebie region of southwestern Poland.
She was a member to a poor Hasidic family that barely supported itself through a grocery store run by Chajka's mother, Perla (Schwinkelstein) Klinger.
In the spring of 1940 she was instructed by the Hashomer Hatzair leadership in Vilna to stay in Będzin and restore movement activity there.
[2] On August 1, 1943, at the beginning of the last deportation of the Będzin Jews, Chajka was in an underground bunker, planning to fight.
She said, “I will not go to Auschwitz,” and with the help of friends, she successfully fled from detention camp and found a hiding place in the village of Dąbrówka.
[4] In March 1944, using one of the small number of immigration certificates that could be obtained in Hungary, she left legally to Mandatory Palestine.
[5] Her writings were published in forms of journals and collections, and she was not satisfied with the way they edited, simplified and censored the whole story of her past life.