She was shot dead by the Nazis in 1942. Her secret diary is to be published after 70 years in a bank

[Eugene]

Source: CNN

She was shot dead by the Nazis in 1942. Her secret diary is to be published after 70 years in a bank vault

By Gianluca Mezzofiore, CNN
Updated 0043 GMT (0843 HKT) September 13, 2019

(CNN) — For almost 70 years, the secret Holocaust diary of the Polish Jewish teenager Renia Spiegel was sealed away in a New York bank vault.

Shot dead by the Nazis just as she reached adulthood in 1942, Renia's story was too painful for her surviving sister and mother to read.

Now, Renia's Diary: A Young Girl's Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust is finally to be published by her family. And it is already drawing comparisons to the diary of Anne Frank for its clarity and skillful writing.

Described by its publisher, Penguin Books, as "an extraordinary testament to both the horrors of war, and to the life that can exist even in the darkest times," the journal will be released on September 19.

The girl lived in Przemysl, south-east Poland, which was under Soviet occupation until the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union in 1941.

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Read more: https://edition.cnn.com/2019/09/12/europe/polish-anne-frank-published-intl-scli/index.html

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Source: BBC

Secret diary of 'Polish Anne Frank' Renia Spiegel to be published

11 September 2019



The secret diary of a Polish-born Jewish teenager murdered by the Nazis in 1942 is to be published after 70 years lying untouched in a bank vault.

Renia's Diary: A Young Girl's Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust is being released by members of Renia Spiegel's family.

The book has been compared to the diary of Anne Frank.

Her sister Elizabeth said: "I have read only some of it because I used to cry all the time."

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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-49646797

[Baitball Blogger]

1. It's good to have more testimonials of this horrible time.

[Karadeniz]

2. I have a couple of books which contain diaries or letters by other children caught up in the

Holocaust. A couple I still remember. One was by a Nordic young man who was determined to fight the Nazis. Another was the diary of a young Jewish man who was all for the Nazi barbarism because he was certain it would force God to intervene and reestablish a Jewish state.

[smirkymonkey]

3. Kicking for exposure.

I can't wait to read this.