Diary of Bergen-Belsen

This book is a unique, deeply political survivorrs"s diary from the final year inside Bergen-Belsen, the notorious Nazi concentration camp. Hanna Leacute;vy-Hass, a Yugoslavian Jew, emerged a defiant survivor of the Holocaust. Her observations, recorded in her own incomparable voice, shed new light on the lived experience of Nazi internment. As the only extant diary of a Holocaust resistance fighter written inside the Nazi camps, this book holds critical historical significance.A new foreword and afterword of the diary is written by Amira Hass, Hanna Leacute;vy-Hassrs" daughter. Amira Hass is a world-renowned journalist in the Middle East, widely recognized for her regular columns in the daily Israeli newspaper Hars"aretz , where she has truthfully documented the injustices of Israeli occupation. Her contribution frames the meaning of her motherrs"s diary for a contemporary readership concerned with the relation between the Holocaust and the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict.Born in Sarajevo, Hanna Leacute; vy-Hass was an activist in the resistance to the German occupation of Yugoslavia. She was taken by the Nazis from Montenegro to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1944. Her diary has been published in many languages.Amira Hass , the daughter of Hanna Leacute;vy-Hass, is an Israeli journalist who is best known for her columns in Hars"aretz . She is the author of Drinking the Sea at Gaza and has received many awards for her writing.