Rutka Laskier

Rutka Laskier was a Jewish teenager from Będzin, Poland, who kept a diary during the German occupation and confinement of the city's Jewish population. Her surviving notebook records daily life, persecution, friendship, and fear before her deportation and death during the Holocaust.

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Rutka's Notebook: A Voice from the Holocaust

2006 · Nonfiction

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Rutka Laskier, a 14-year-old Jewish girl in the town of Bedzin in Poland, died in Auschwitz in 1943. But she left behind a notebook in which she recorded her thoughts, fears and dreams. Some are the musings of any adolescent girl; others are the despairing cries of an individual caught in history's vortex. Now, after 60 years in the keeping of a friend, that notebook has been recovered - and it opens a unique, moving window into the everyday life of Polish Jews caught in the throes of Adolf Hitler's Final Solution. Hailed as the "Polish Anne Frank," Rutka Laskier now speaks to us across the decades: a witness to evil, a voice for the silent, and a timeless symbol of resolve. The editors of "TIME" add annotations, photos, maps, and quotations that help bring this tragic era into compelling focus for today's readers.

Print · Yad Vashem Pubns · 2007-06-30 · English
ISBN 9780976442578

Print · Time / Yad Vashem · 2008-04-28 · English
ISBN 9781603200196

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