Results: Renia's Diary: A Holocaust Journal

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Renia Spiegel was born in 1924 to an upper-middle class Jewish family living in southeastern Poland. At the start of 1939 Renia began a diary. "I just want a friend. I want somebody to talk to about my everyday worries and joys. Somebody who would feel what I feel, who would believe me, who would never reveal my secrets. A human being can never be such a friend and that's why I have decided to look for a confidant in the form of a diary." And so begins an extraordinary document of an adolescent girl's hopes and dreams. Renia had aspirations to be a writer, and the diary is filled with her poignant and thoughtful poetry. When she was forced into the city's ghetto with the other Jews, Zygmund (her boyfriend) is able to smuggle her out to hide with his parents, taking Renia out of the ghetto, but not, ultimately to safety. The diary ends in July 1942, completed by Zygmund, after Renia was discovered and murdered by the Gestapo. Are you interested in reading this diary of a young Holocaust victim who was called " The Polish Ann Frank"?
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