Children in the Holocaust and World War II: Their Secret Diaries (1995 Holliday), anthology

Children in the Holocaust and World War II: Their Secret Diaries (1995) is a collection of twenty-three diaries written by children during the Holocaust, edited by Laurel Holliday.

Janine Phillips : Poland, 10 years old -- Ephraim Shtenkler : Poland, 11 years old -- Dirk Van der Heide (pseudonym) : Holland, 12 years old -- Werner Galnik : Germany, 12 years old -- Janina Heshele : Poland, 12 years old -- Helga Weissova-Hoskova : Czechoslovakia, 12 years old -- Dawid Rubinowicz : Poland, 12 years old -- Helga Kinsky-Pollack : Austria, 13 years old -- Eva Heyman : Hungary, 13 years old -- Tamarah Lazerson : Lithuania, 13 years old -- Yitskhok Rudashevski : Lithuania, 14 years old -- Macha Rolnikas : Lithuania, 14 years old -- Charlotte Veresova : Czechoslovakia, 14 years old -- Mary Berg (pseudonym) : Poland, 15 years old -- Ina Konstantinova : Russia, 16 years old -- Moshe Flinker : Belgium, 16 years old -- Joan Wyndham : England, 16 years old -- Hannah Senesh : Hungary and Israel, 17 years old -- Sarah Fishkin : Poland, 17 years old -- Kim Malthe-Bruun : Denmark, 18 years old -- Colin Perry : England, 18 years old -- The unknown brother and sister of Lodz Ghetto : Poland, unknown age and 12 years old.

Abstract

"An anthology of twenty-three diaries written during the Holocaust by children, some of whom were later murdered by the Nazis ... Children in the Holocaust and World War II is an extraordinary, unprecedented anthology of diaries written by children all across Nazi-occupied Europe and in England ... Twenty-three young people, ages ten through eighteen, recount in vivid detail the horrors they lived through. As powerful as The Diary of Anne Frank and Zlata's Diary, children's experiences are written with an unguarded eloquence that belies their years ... Some of the diarists include: a Hungarian girl, selected by Mengele to be put in a line of prisoners who were tortured and murdered; a Danish Christian boy executed by the Nazis for his partisan work; and a twelve-year-old Dutch boy who lived through the Blitzkrieg in Rotterdam. And many others. These heartbreaking stories paint a harrowing picture of a genocide that will never be forgotten, and a war that shaped many generations to follow."--Publisher description.

Editions

Published in New York, NY: Pocket Books, 1995.