![]() ![]() Facility / Grounds Management and Maintenance.She recrafted the original diary to have universal appeal and, after her death, her father edited it still more to offer a redemptive message to a postwar world thirsting to find meaning in the recent disasters. She did not document daily suffering in a ghetto, mass shootings or the struggle for existence in the camps. ![]() ![]() Her diary records little about anti-Jewish measures and ends before she faced the horrors of Westerbork transit camp, Birkenau and Belsen. Thanks to her father’s foresight, means and loyal staff, she survived in hiding from July 1942 to August 1944. She came from an assimilated German-Jewish family who found refuge in the Netherlands. This was odd because Anne was hardly representative of the 1.5 million Jewish children who fell victim to the Nazis. However, for decades after the war, there was apparently only one “Holocaust diary”, Anne Frank’s. Only a few have survived and they are prized as witnesses to the catastrophe. Yet these were the circumstances in which countless young Jews kept diaries in countries under Nazi rule between 19. Many readers of this review will have kept a diary as a youngster but few will have made entries in the expectation that they might soon be wrenched from home and confronted with mass murder. Helga’s Diary: a Young Girl’s Account of Life in a Concentration Camp ![]()
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