Reina's Diary HC
Reina Spiegel
Paperback
336 Pages
2019
"[T]ouching, poetic chronicle" ―The Los Angelos Times
"[T]he publication of Renia's Diary offers a reminder of the power of bearing witness." ―The New York Times
"A must-read." ―Addison Independent
“A terribly poignant work that conveys the brutal reality of the time through intimate connection with a young person.”―Kirkus Review
“Moving [and] riveting... this epic, layered story of survival serves as an important Holocaust document.”―Publishers Weekly
“Renia Spiegel, a young girl so filled with a zest for life and possessed of an ability to describe in prose and in poetry the beauty of the world around her, was denied with one bullet what she so wanted: a future...Those who saved the diary and those who worked to bring it to print, have “rescued” her. They could not save her from a cruel fate. Nor could they give her that future she so desired. But they have rescued her from the added pain of having been forgotten.”―from the Introduction by Deborah E. Lipstadt, Dorot Professor of Holocaust History at Emory University and the author of Antisemitism: Here and Now
“Readers will naturally contrast Renia’s diary with Anne Frank’s. Renia was a little older and more sophisticated, writing frequently in poetry as well as in prose...Reading such different firsthand accounts reminds us that each of the Holocaust’s millions of victims had a unique and dramatic experience.”―Robin Shulman, Smithsonian magazine
