"Despite all these atrocities, I want to live and wait for the following day"
Fourteen year old Rutka, described as Poland's Anne Frank, kept a diary in 1943. Although it was only for a brief period, January - April, she shows understanding far beyond her years. Her entries range from the typical everyday teen-aged things one would expect to the horrors and frightfulness of Bedzin (Today there are no Jews left in Bedzin. Those who did not escape were exterminated or deported to labour (death) camps.) and the plight of the Jewish community.
Anyone who has read The Diary of Anne Frank, should make the effort to read this memoir too. Apart from the diary, it also contains other information relating to Rutka and her family as well as the Holocaust. The particular copy that I own also contains a list and summaries of other Holocaust diaries written by Jewish Youths.
Published by: Time Books and Yad Vashem
Published in: 2008
ISBN: 978 160 320 0196
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