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Title

Jacob Boas. We Are Witnesses: Five Diaries of Teenagers Who Died in the Holocaust. New York, NY: Henry Holt, 1995.

Abstract

"The five diarists in this book did not survive the war. But their words did. Each diary reveals one voice, one teenager coping with the impossible. We see Dawid Rubinowicz struggling against fear and terror. Yitskhok Rudashevski shows us how Jews clung to culture, to learning, and to hope, until there was no hope at all. Moshe Flinker is the voice of religion, constantly seeking answers from God for relentless tragedy. Éva Heyman demonstrates the unquenchable hunger for life that sustained her until the very last moment. And finally, Anne Frank reveals the largest truth they all left for us: Hitler could kill millions, but he could not destroy the human spirit. These stark accounts of how five young people faced the worst of human evil are a testament, and an inspiration, to the best of the human soul."--Publisher description.

Contents

• 1. "The end of the world will soon be here" / David Rubinowicz
• 2. "Long live youth!" / Yitzhak Rudashevski
• 3. "My name is Harry" / Moshe Flinker
• 4. "I want to live!" / Éva Heyman
• 5. "I must uphold my ideals" / Anne Frank.