Haya Prywes was born in 1929 in Sosnowiec in the Zaglebie region, Poland. On the 2nd of August 1943, during the liquidation of the Sosnowiec ghetto, she was deported, together with her parents Zelig and Hadasa and her brother Yosef to Auschwitz. Her father was murdered immediately upon arrival. Her brother's fate is unknown.

