Who knows how long it will last? It might even continue until the end of our lives. Today, my dear diary, is the beginning of our deep friendship. No human being could ever be that kind of friend. Somebody who will feel what I feel, believe what I say and never reveal my secrets. Somebody I can talk to about my everyday worries and joys. Why did I decide to start a diary today? Has something important happened? Have I discovered that my friends are keeping diaries of their own? No! I just want a friend. Along with the diary excerpts below, we’ve added red type with contextual dates of the history of how World War II came to Poland, as the Nazis invaded from the west and the Soviets from the east, deporting, imprisoning and murdering Jews in cities like Przemsyl, where Spiegel lived and perished. To learn the backstory of Spiegel’s life and how her words found their way to our pages, we invite you to read this prologue by journalist Robin Shulman. From the Editors: Translated from Polish for the first time, the diary of Renia Spiegel presents us with a striking first-person narrative of life as a young Jew during World War II.
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