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When Germany invaded Poland in 1939, Halina Nelken, a precocious teenager, was living a middle-class life in Krakow, Poland. She began recording her personal observations and feelings in a diary, which eventually became the core of this remarkable book. As the situation deteriorated and her family was forced into the Jewish ghetto, she continued to write, smuggling her diary out with a Catholic friend. The diary entries, written between 1938 and 1943, form the core of the volume, while later recollections and explanatory notes supplement the narrative.
First publish date: 1999
Genre: Memoir/Personal Memoir
Authors: Halina Nelken
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