Author Anita Friedman: Rywka's Diary: The Writings of a Jewish Girl from the Lodz Ghetto
Organization:
The Oshman Family JCC
Category:
Literary
Geographical Area:
San Jose
Start
Date:
9/30/2015
End Date:
9/30/2015
Start Time:
7:30 PM
End Time:
9:00 PM
Event
Info:
A Red Army doctor found a diary of a teenage girl in the ruins of Auschwitz after its liberation in 1945 and took it back with her to the Soviet Union. It has been in her private possession for more than seventy years until it was discovered after her death by her granddaughter. Rywka's Diary is an astonishing historical document and a moving tribute to the many ordinary people whose lives were forever altered by the Holocaust.
Handwritten in a school notebook between October 1943 and April 1944, Rwyka Lipszyc detailed the brutal conditions that Jews in the Lodz ghetto, the second largest in Poland, endured under the Nazis: poverty, hunger and malnutrition, religious oppression, and, in Rywka's case, the death of her parents and siblings. The diary is also a coming-of-age story, in which a young woman expresses her curiosity about the world and her place in it and reflects on her relationship with God-a remarkable affirmation of her commitment to Judaism and her faith in humanity. The diary ends literally in mid-sentence. What became of Rywka is a mystery.
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