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Holocaust Diarists
Diarists who wrote diaries concerning the Holocaust (1941-1945). English translations of some of these diaries are commercially available, for example Anne Frank's, Eva Heyman's, Janusz Korczak's. * Janina Altman - a Jewish diarist in the Lwow Ghetto. Survived the Shoah and war. * Nonna Bannister (19272004) - a Russian Jewish diarist who wrote diaries while working as a Ostarbeiter in Germany, along with her mother, Anna. * Mary Berg * Hélène Berr– a French diarist * :simple:Elsa Binder, Eliszewa Binder * Willy Cohn * Miriam Chaszczewacki– a Polish diarist killed in the Radomsko ghetto * Adam Czerniaków * Arnold Daghani * Helga Deen– wrote a diary in Herzogenbusch concentration camp (Camp Vught) * Anne Frank– author of The Diary of a Young Girl * Petr Ginz * Zalman Gradowski * Eva Heyman - a 13-year-old girl who kept a diary in Nagyvárad (now called Oradea), a Hungarian part of Romania, before murdered in Aushwitz * Etty Hillesum– Dutch Jewish diarist and Holocaus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diarist
A diary is a writing, written or audiovisual Memorabilia, memorable record, with discrete entries arranged by Calendar date, date reporting on what has happened over the course of a day or other period. Diaries have traditionally been handwriting, handwritten but are now also often digital media, digital. A personal diary may include a person's experiences, thoughts, and/or feelings, excluding comments on current events outside the writer's direct experience. Someone who keeps a diary is known as a list of diarists, diarist. Diaries undertaken for institutional purposes play a role in many aspects of human civilization, including government records (e.g. ''Hansard''), business ledgers, and military Service record, records. In British English, the word may also denote diary (stationery), a preprinted journal format. Today the term is generally employed for personal diaries, normally intended to remain private or to have a limited circulation amongst friends or relatives. The word ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petr Ginz
Petr Ginz (1 February 1928 – 28 September 1944) was a Czechoslovak boy of partial Jewish background who was deported to the Theresienstadt Ghetto (known as Terezín, in Czech) during the Holocaust. He was murdered at the age of sixteen when he was transferred to Auschwitz concentration camp and gassed to death upon arrival. His diary was published after his death. Life Ginz was the son of Otto Ginz, the manager of the export department of a Prague textile company and a notable Esperantist, and Marie Ginz (née Dolanská). Ginz's father was Jewish, while his mother was not. His parents met at an Esperantist congress. His mother was from Hradec Králové, where her father was a village teacher. Ginz received frequent visits from his relatives, especially during Christmas holidays. Ginz was a very intelligent boy. Between the ages of 8 and 14 he wrote four novels: ''From Prague to China'', ''The Wizard from Altay Mountains'', ''Around the World in One Second'' and ''A Visit fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rutka Laskier
Ruth "Rutka" Laskier (12 June 1929 – December 1943) was a Jewish Polish diarist who is best known for her 1943 diary chronicling three months of her life during the Holocaust in Poland. She was murdered at Auschwitz concentration camp in 1943 at the age of fourteen. Her manuscript, authenticated by Yad Vashem, was published in the Polish language in early 2006. English and Hebrew translations were released the following year. It has been compared to the diary of Anne Frank. Laskier's diary has been a focus of a 2009 BBC documentary and of the 2024 musical '' Rutka.'' Biography Rutka Laskier was born in Kraków to Dwojra Hampel, daughter of Abram Chil Hampel, and Jakub Laskier, who worked as a bank officer.Rutka Laskier's Birth Record Finally Located Announcement by Jewish Records Poland-Indexing, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leib Langfus
Leib Langfus, or also Leyb Langfus, was one of the victims of Auschwitz-Birkenau. A rabbi and Dayan (rabbinical judge) in Maków Mazowiecki, he was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1942, where he was forced to work as a Sonderkommando. After the war, a diary Langfus kept was unearthed in the grounds of Birkenau, which was published with several other diaries, under the title, ''The scrolls of Auschwitz''. Between 1945 and 1980, a total of eight caches of documents were found buried in the grounds of Crematoria II and III in Auschwitz-Birkenau. The accounts written by Langfus are considered one of the most important historical documents dealing with subject of the Sonderkommando in Auschwitz, and the Holocaust in general. Biography Leib Langfus was born in Warsaw and studied in the Tzusmir Yeshiva. After marrying the daughter of Dayan Shmuel Yosef Rosental of Maków Mazowiecki (in the mid-1930s), he assumed his father-in-law's post following the latter's death. He eventually b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herman Kruk
Herman Kruk () (19 May 1897-18 September 1944) was a Polish-Jewish librarian and Bundist activist who kept a diary recording his experiences in the Vilna Ghetto during World War II. Life Kruk fled Warsaw and relocated to Vilna at the outbreak of the Invasion of Poland. While confined to the Vilna Ghetto, he organized and oversaw the creation and operation of a library in the Ghetto. He also played an active role in several of the ghetto's social welfare and cultural organizations. Kruk continued chronicling his experiences after he was transferred to the Klooga concentration camp. The last entry was made on September 17, 1944, when he buried his diaries inside the camp at KZ Lagedi in Estonia. The following day, he and almost all the other prisoners were forced to carry logs to a pile, spread them in a layer, lie down naked on them so they could be executed and burned in a massive pyre. The Red Army arrived the following day to find the aftermath. His diary was published posth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janusz Korczak
Janusz Korczak, the pen name of Henryk Goldszmit (22 July 1878 or 1879 – 7 August 1942), was a Polish Jewish pediatrician, educator, children's author and pedagogue known as ''Pan Doktor'' ("Mr. Doctor") or ''Stary Doktor'' ("Old Doctor"). He was an early children's rights advocate, in 1919 drafting a children's constitution. After spending many years working as a principal of an orphanage in Warsaw, he moved in with his orphans when the orphanage was forced to move to the ghetto, despite pleas from friends to flee the country. He was executed when the entire population of the institution was sent to the Treblinka extermination camp during the Grossaktion Warschau of 1942. Biography Early life and education Korczak was born in Warsaw. He was unsure of his birth date, which is attributed to his father's failure to promptly acquire a birth certificate for him; his birth date is 22 July of either 1878 or 1879. His parents were , a respected lawyer from a family of prop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Koker
David Koker (27 November 1921 - 23 February 1945) was a Jewish student who lived with his family in Amsterdam until he was captured on the night of 11 February 1943 and transported to camp Vught. David was forced to halt his studies in philosophy and history in September 1941 when the university ceased allowing Jews to study. The family did not go into hiding because they had received an exemption and believed they were safe. Still, in 1943, they were captured and transported to Camp Vught on 11 February. David spent some of his time teaching children at the camp. In July, he received a ''Sperre'' (temporary exemption from deportation) from Frits Philips and joined his "Philips Commandos". In June 1944, the "Philips-Jews" were transported to Auschwitz-Birkenau, from where they would be sent to other camps to work for electronics companies. David's mother and brother Max survived the war. David, however, fell ill and died during a transfer of ill people to the Dachau concentratio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Věra Kohnová
Věra Kohnová (26 June 1929 – 1942) was a Jewish girl who was deported with her family first in January 1942 from Plzeň to a concentration camp in Theresienstadt concentration camp, Theresienstadt and in March 1942 to the Izbica Ghetto in Poland. Věra Kohnová became famous for her diary, which she wrote from August 1941 to January 1942. The diary, in which she watched the last months of life of the Jewish inhabitants of Plzen as a child, she stopped writing a few days before her deportation to Theresienstadt. Věra Kohnová is one of the child victims of the Holocaust. Due to her being the same age and her also writing a diary, she is often compared to Anne Frank. Biography Věra Kohnová's family Věra Kohnová was born on 26 June 1929 in Plzeň, the daughter of Otakar Kohn (1889–1942), an official at the Plzeň iron and metal goods company ''Gustav Teller''. Otakar Kohn came from a family living in Týn nad Vltavou. He came to Plzeň in 1908, and in 1913 his younger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Klemperer
Victor Klemperer (9 October 188111 February 1960) was a German literary scholar and diarist. His journals, published posthumously in Germany in 1995, detailed his life under the German Empire, the Weimar Republic, the fascist Nazi Germany, Third Reich, and the East Germany, German Democratic Republic. Three volumes of his diaries have been published in English translations: ''I Shall Bear Witness,'' ''To the Bitter End'', and ''The Lesser Evil''. The first two, which cover the period of the Third Reich, have become standard sources and have been extensively quoted. His book Lingua Tertii Imperii, LTI – Notizbuch eines Philologen (Lingua Tertii Imperii: Language of the Third Reich), published in English as ''The Language of the Third Reich'', examined how Nazi propaganda co-opted and corrupted German words and expressions. Early life and education Klemperer was born in Landsberg an der Warthe (now Gorzów Wielkopolski, Poland) as the youngest child of a Jewish family. His pare ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zelig Kalmanovich
__NOTOC__ Zelig Hirsch Kalmanovich (; ) (1885–1944) was a Lithuanian Jews, Litvak Jewish philologist, translator, historian, and community archivist of the early 20th century. He was a renowned scholar of Yiddish. In 1929 he settled in Vilnius where he became an early director of YIVO. He was incarcerated in the Vilna Ghetto where he became an observant Jew. During his time in the ghetto, Kalmanovich kept a secret diary which is one of the few primary sources recording day-to-day life. His diary stressed the efforts of the community to retain their humanity in the face of oppression. For example, on October 11, 1942, he wrote the following entry in his diary: On Simhat Torah eve at the invitation of the rabbi, I went for services in a house that had formerly been a synagogue and was now a music school ... I said a few words: 'Our song and dance are a form of worship. Our rejoicing is due to Him who decrees life and death. Here in the midst of this small congregation, in the poor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Kahane
David Kahane (, ; 15 March 1903 – 24 September 1998) was a Polish-Jewish religious teacher, doctor of philosophy, member of the Mizrachi party in Lwów and Chief Rabbi of the Polish Army. He was also the Chief Rabbi of the Israeli air force, and Chief Rabbi of Argentina between 1965 and 1975. Life Kahane was born in Grzymałów, partitioned Poland (now Hrymailiv, Ukraine) into a religious family of the Rabbis. He studied in Berlin and in Wrocław (then Breslau). In 1923–1929, following the reconstitution of sovereign Poland, he continued his studies at the University of Vienna where he obtained the title of Doctor of Philosophy in ''Israelitisch-Theologische Lehranstalt''. Upon his return to Poland, Kahane joined the Mizrachi party in Lwów. He made his living as a religious teacher. Subsequently, he was appointed Rabbi of Tykocin, and in 1929–1939 the Rabbi in Ose Tow Synagogue of Lwów. He also served as director of scientific Tanakh institute locally. Following the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Westerbork Transit Camp
Camp Westerbork (, , Drents: ''Börker Kamp; Kamp Westerbörk''), also known as Westerbork transit camp, was a Nazi transit camp in the province of Drenthe in the Northeastern Netherlands, during World War II. It was located in the municipality of Westerbork, current-day Midden-Drenthe. Camp Westerbork was used as a staging location for sending Jews, Sinti and Roma to concentration camps elsewhere. Purpose of Camp Westerbork The camp location was established by the Government of the Netherlands in the summer of 1939 to serve as a refugee camp for Germans and Austrians (German and Austrian Jews in particular), who had fled to the Netherlands to escape Nazi persecution. However, after the German invasion of the Netherlands in May 1940, that original purpose no longer existed. By 1942, Camp Westerbork was repurposed as a staging ground for the deportation of Jews. Only in area, the camp was not built for the purpose of industrial murder as were Nazi extermination camps. Wes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
