Salvaged Pages : Young Writer's Diaries of the Holocaust
, by Collected and edited by Alexandra Zapruder
- ISBN: 9780300092431 | 0300092431
- Cover: Trade Book
- Copyright: 3/11/2002
This stirring collection of diaries written by young people during experiences -- the Holocaust reflects a vast and diverse range of some of the writers were refugees, others were hiding or passing as non-Jews, some were imprisoned in ghettos. The book offers the first comprehensive collection of such writings, with extensive excerpts from fifteen diaries, ten of which have never before been translated and published in English. The diarists ranged in age from twelve to twenty-two; some survived the Holocaust, but most perished. Taken together, their accounts of daily events and their often unexpected thoughts, ideas, and feelings serve to deepen and complicate our understanding of life during the Holocaust.
The volume begins with a discussion of Anne Frank's diary and offers a new framework for thinking about the diaries young people produced in this time of extreme crisis. Alexandra Zapruder assesses the value of these literary fragments as part of the historical record of the Holocaust and provides informative introductions about when and where each diary w
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