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Lädt ... Renia's Diary: A Holocaust Journalvon Renia SPIEGEL
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Not quite what I expected This book shows a different side of the invasion of Poland. Reina's first hand account of what is going on is very interesting. It should be noted that this is nothing like Anne Frank's diary...nothing. Reina's diary goes through every day life during the invasion, this includes (mainly) her crushes and how much she misses her Mother whom she has been separated from due to the war. There is far more teenage angst that anything else. As long as the reader does not open this book expecting the deep insights received from Anne Frank, then they will be able to enjoy the read. Renia’s Diary is just that, a diary of a young Jewish girl from Poland. She was just 14 when she started her diary because she wanted a friend. Actually, she had friends, I feel more likely that she wanted a confidant and some way to express all her hopes, dreams and sorrows without fear of ridicule from pears. As you can imagine, the diary entries are about Renia’s daily life. When she starts the diary, she is living with her grandparents. Her parents are in Warsaw and have been traveling with her sister who is a child actress. As expected, most of the writing is centered around school, her friends and her longing for her family, mainly her Mother. At the beginning, she does speak occasionally of the troubling times and a few of the historical events. As Renia gets older, she talks about going to parties with friends, dating and dreams about the future. She goes to movies and takes long walks with Zygument (Zygu), her boyfriend. In December of 1941 she decides to start writing about the war. She says, “Blood is flowing, cities are ruined, people are dying.” Despite her declaration, most of her writing remains the same. It is obvious Renia is deeply religious. All throughout the diary she periodic asked God to take care of her and her family. Later in the diary, most entries end with a plea, “You will help me, Bulus and God”. Even though she did not mention the trying times often, they must have weighed heavily on her mind. Sadly, her life ends shortly after her 18th birthday. The final few diary entries are made by Renia’s boyfriend, Zygu, because she along with his parents are shot in July 1942. The prose I struggled with because it was written by someone so young and was of course immature. She talked about life with her friends and petty things that happened to her and others. As she gets older, the discuss turns to going to parties and boys and finally falling in love. It is difficult to compare this book to other works of nonfiction because it is a diary and not a book. It was never written for or intended to be read by an end consumer. Therefore, I struggled with how to assign any kind of rating to a nonliterary work? Ultimately, I choose my rating mostly based on the poetry contained in the diary. There was a lot of poetry in the diary. Enough for an entire collection to be published of just the poetry. There were all types of poems, long (some ran several pages) to short, some sad, some lively and some longing. Regardless of the theme, they were lovely. The poems are the real star of the book. I found it to be not only good, but contemplative. For the prose to be so immature, the poetry was the exact opposite. I am left wondering what her poetry would have been like if she had lived. Would she have been a great poet in the 20th century? I received a free copy from the publisher in exchange for my honest review. This book is the edited version of Renia Spiegel‘s diary that spans nearly 700 pages and nearly four years in 1939-1942. Sergey Yarov wrote brilliantly about morality in the siege of Leningrad during World War II. He read a lot of previously redacted diaries that belonged to people who were part of the siege. Those diaries told a clear tale of how things changed gradually, and how what was once considered extreme behaviours were normalised, from making potato-skin soup to pilfering corpses for food stamps. Equally, Viktor Klemperer‘s essential diaries from World War II told a most chilling tale where Jews were violently targeted, people that weren’t The Teutonic Ideal were persecuted, and entire populations razed off the face of the Earth. But not without testimony. Most importantly, diaries offer us something that memoirs do not: an emotional immediacy. And it is this immediacy that is so very compelling. I am reminded of Helene Berr, the Israelite young Parisian woman who kept a diary from 1942 through to the day she and her parents were rounded up in March 1944. Fortuitously, she begins to write but a short time before the decree that all Jews must wear a yellow star. The above is part of the introduction that is written by Renia’s sister, Ariana Spiegel, who is currently named Elizabeth Leszczyska Bellak. JANUARY 31, 1939 Renia was fourteen years old when she started her diary, a tumultuous time for any teenager, for sure. She writes of everyday troubles, of boys that she likes, of friends, family, her constant longing for her mother, and to begin with, this diary offers a reprieve from all things sensationalistic – which is exactly why it is extraordinary; the horrors of World War seep in over time. FEBRUARY 13, 1939 There are naturally sudden changes all throughout the book, as war is seldom predictable, especially for the victims. SEPTEMBER 10, 1939 One stand-out thing about Renia is her poetry. She writes poetry all throughout her diary, about all kinds of things. To me, it is apparent how the poetry changes, both from her age and also from the war. Even if your beauty could outshine that of Greek goddesses’ line Her words on her love interests radiate from the page: JANUARY 5, 1941, SUNDAY Her true beloved, Zygu, shines through the pages, even when he is “a boor”, and their love is mutual. It makes me remember the turmoils and torpor that youth entails. JULY 1, 1941 Zygu and Renia loved each other dearly, seemingly as she loved her mother. Renia’s sister, Elizabeth, provides a loving epilogue to this book, which also details as much as we know happened to Renia, and also to Zygmunt (Zygu). This diary stood the test of time, and will forever be a tome over what happened to a young person who was murdered during the Holocaust. Not going to rate this because I cannot rate the innermost thoughts of a young teenage girl who never had any intention of this being published. Moreover, there was something about the translation that was so very difficult for me to connect with. Maybe it was a direct transliteration, so very literal and dissimilar to how an English speaker would write or speak. This is not to say it was wrong or incorrect to be translated this way, but it was very difficult to find any rhythm or flow and therefore hard for me to connect with the writing and the content. I enjoyed Elizabeth’s detailed and informative explanations at the end that filled in some of the gaps in Renia’s diary entries. The majority of Renia’s Diary, as any young girl’s diary might be, was filled endlessly about boys and friends and parties. That was about 95% of the entire book and rightly so — but it was a bit deceiving, as this is sold as a Holocaust journal. It was not really about the Holocaust or the trauma Renia or her family experienced. It seems a little dishonest to sell it in such a way and thus I can understand the low-starred reviews. I will not rate this because how dare I rate a young, innocent girl’s private words that weren’t intended to be shared? Every story of the Holocaust, all twelve-plus million of them, deserve to be told and heard and never forgotten. Renia’s is one of those. keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
"The long-hidden diary of a young Polish woman's last days during the Holocaust, translated for the first time into English, with a foreword from American Holocaust historian Deborah Lipstadt. Renia Spiegel was a young girl from an upper-middle class Jewish family living on an estate in Stawki, Poland, near what was at that time the border with Romania. In the summer of 1939, Renia and her sister Elizabeth (née Ariana) were visiting their grandparents in Przemysl, right before the Germans invaded Poland. Like Anne Frank, Renia recorded her days in her beloved diary. She also filled it with beautiful original poetry. Her diary records how she grew up, fell in love, and was rounded up by the invading Nazis and forced to move to the ghetto in Przemsyl with all the other Jews. By luck, Renia's boyfriend Zygmund was able to find a tenement for Renia to hide in with his parents and took her out of the ghetto. This is all described in the Diary, as well as the tragedies that befell her family and her ultimate fate in 1942, as written in by Zygmund on the Diary's final page. Renia's Diary is a significant historical and psychological document. The raw, yet beautiful account depicts Renia's angst over the horrors going on around her. It has been translated from the original Polish, with notes included by her surviving sister, Elizabeth Bellak"-- Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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