Survivor. Diary of a Girl from the Warsaw Ghetto

The population of the Warsaw ghetto was half a million people, of which only a few managed to survive. The author of this book became one of those few prisoners who managed to survive the Holocaust. Alongside Anne Frank's diary, this is one of the most significant testimonies of World War II, a deeply personal story of a young girl who loved life and faced unimaginable human suffering. It was the diary of Miriam Wattenberg (1924–2013), published in the USA before the war ended in February 1945, that opened the world's eyes to the horrors of the Holocaust. “Today in the ghetto, it was a bloody Wednesday. Deportations and street pogroms began. At dawn, Ukrainian and Lithuanian patrols under German command surrounded the ghetto. Anyone who approached the gates or appeared in a window was shot on the spot. The Ukrainians and Lithuanians showed great eagerness in the killings. These were tall young beasts, seventeen to twenty years old, specially trained for this bloody work by German instructors…” “The Diary of Miriam Wattenberg reminds us that among the burning houses, engulfed streets, and mass murders, there were people who did not acknowledge their defeat…,” The New York Times