Renia Spiegel's Diary Survived The Holocaust. People Are Finally Reading It.
Renia's Diary spent 70 years in a safe deposit box before being published this week in the U.S. It was written by a Jewish teenager in Poland before she was murdered by the Nazis.
by Lynn Neary
Sep 30, 2019
4 minutes
A young Jewish girl begins a diary just as World War II is about to break out in Europe. She records the details of her daily life, but more and more, the war takes over. Eventually, the diary comes to a heartbreaking end.
But in this case, it is not the story of Anne Frank. This is Renia's Diary, a journal that spent decades stored away in a safe deposit box. Now, it's being published with help from Renia's niece and sister.
For a long time, Elizabeth Bellak didn't even know that her older sister Renata had
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