Renia's diary : a young girl's life in the shadow of the Holocaust

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Label

Renia's diary : a young girl's life in the shadow of the Holocaust

Title remainder

a young girl's life in the shadow of the Holocaust

Statement of responsibility

Renia Spiegel ; translated by Anna Blasiak, Marta Dziurosz ; introduction by Deborah E. Lipstadt ; prologue and epilogue by Elizabeth Bellak with Sarah Durand

Creator

• Spiegel, Renia, 1924-1942

Contributor

• Lipstadt, Deborah E.
• Durand, Sarah
• Bellak, Elizabeth
• Blasiak, Anna
• Dziurosz, Marta

Author

• Spiegel, Renia, 1924-1942

Translator

• Blasiak, Anna
• Dziurosz, Marta

Writer of introduction

• Lipstadt, Deborah E.

Writer of supplementary textual content

• Durand, Sarah
• Bellak, Elizabeth

Subject

• Diaries
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland | Przemysl -- Personal narratives
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Poland | Przemysl -- Jews
• Spiegel, Renia, 1924-1942 -- Diaries
• Personal narratives
• Jewish ghettos -- Poland | Przemysl -- History -- Sources
• Autobiographies

Genre

• Sources
• Diaries
• Autobiographies
• Personal narratives

Language

• eng
• pol
• eng

Summary

Renia Spiegel was a young girl from an upper-middle class Jewish family living on an estate in Stawki, Poland, near what was at that time the border with Romania. In the summer of 1939, Renia and her sister Elizabeth (née Ariana) were visiting their grandparents in Przemysl, right before the Germans invaded Poland. Like Anne Frank, Renia recorded her days in her beloved diary. She also filled it with beautiful original poetry. Her diary records how she grew up, fell in love, and was rounded up by the invading Nazis and forced to move to the ghetto in Przemsyl with all the other Jews. By luck, Renia's boyfriend Zygmund was able to find a tenement for Renia to hide in with his parents and took her out of the ghetto. This is all described in the diary, as well as the tragedies that befell her family and her ultimate fate in 1942, as written in by Zygmund on the diary's final page

Biography type

autobiography

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps
• portraits
• plates

Index

no index present

Language note

Translated from the Polish

Literary form

non fiction

Target audience

adult