Books Details
Author : Renia Spiegel Pages : 336 pages Publisher : St.
Martin's Press Language : eng ISBN-10 : 43263616-renia-s-diary
ISBN-13 : 9781250244024
Books Descriptions
The long-hidden diary of a young Polish woman's last days
during the Holocaust, translated for the first time into
English, with a foreword from American Holocaust historian
Deborah Lipstadt.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 (n?e 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
