Rutka's Notebook: January-April 1943 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780976442578)

Descriptions of alarming moments are intertwined with private and banal thoughts in the notebook of 14-year-old Rutka Laskier from Będzin, which documented her life during a few months in 1943. The outside world slowly closed down on her, but these few sheets of paper - some 60 handwritten pages in a notebook - reflect the entire universe of an adolescent Jewish girl in the shadow of death. Initial buds of womanhood, first loves, deceptions, friendships, jealousy and disputes are recorded in detail in the midst of deportations, fear, horror and death. These provide not only a moving, humane and historical testimony of Rutka's life and death, but also represent that of tens of thousands of adolescent boys and girls during the Holocaust.

Author: Rutka Laskier
ISBN-10: 0976442574
ISBN-13: 9780976442578
Publisher: Yad Vashem Publications
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2007
Pages: 72
Format: Paperback
Weight: 4.00lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.50w x 0.40d