
- 512 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
This stirring collection of diaries written by young people, aged twelve to twenty-two years, during the Holocaust has been fully revised and updated. Some of the writers were refugees, others were in hiding or passing as non-Jews, some were imprisoned in ghettos, and nearly all perished before liberation. This seminal National Jewish Book Award winner preserves the impressions, emotions, and eyewitness reportage of young people whose accounts of daily events and often unexpected thoughts, ideas, and feelings serve to deepen and complicate our understanding of life during the Holocaust.
The second paperback edition includes a new preface by Alexandra Zapruder examining the book's history and impact. Simultaneously, an enhanced e-book incorporates a wealth of new content in a variety of media, including photographs of the writers and their families, images of the original diaries, artwork made by the writers, historical documents, glossary terms, maps, survivor testimony (some available for the first time), and video of the author teaching key passages. In addition, an in-depth, interdisciplinary curriculum in history, literature, and writing developed by the author and a team of teachers, working in cooperation with the educational organization Facing History and Ourselves, is now available to support use of the book in middle- and high-school classrooms.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Editor’s Note
- Introduction
- 1. Klaus Langer
- 2. Elisabeth Kaufmann
- 3. Peter Feigl
- 4. Moshe Flinker
- 5. Otto Wolf
- 6. Petr Ginz and Eva Ginzová
- 7. Yitskhok Rudashevski
- 8. Anonymous Girl
- 9. Miriam Korber
- 10. Dawid Rubinowicz
- 11. Elsa Binder
- 12. Ilya Gerber
- 13. Anonymous Boy
- 14. Alice Ehrmann
- Appendix I
- Appendix II
- Notes
- Sources and Translators
- Index