The heartbreaking account of a Jewish girl trying to survive the terrors of Nazi-occupied Poland during the Holocaust is being published.
Renia Spiegel in a boat in the Dniester River in Zaleszczyki, in present day Ukraine, approximately 1936.Renia Spiegel, born in eastern Poland in 1924, began writing her diary in 1939 with dreams of becoming a poet. She'd been living with her sister and grandparents in the south-eastern city of Przemysl when the war broke out, separating her from her mother who was in Warsaw.
"I just want a friend. I want somebody to talk to about my everyday worries and joys," she wrote in 1939. "I live here now; the world is separated from me and I’m separated from the world," she wrote in July 1942. Spiegel was shot dead by German soldiers in 1942, just before her 18th birthday, after being found in hiding.
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