Renia's Diary av Renia Spiegel

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<p><b>A <i>New York Times </i>bestseller <br>A <i>USA Today</i> bestseller<br><br>The long-hidden diary of a young Polish woman''s life during the Holocaust, translated for the first time into English</b><br><br>Renia Spiegel was born in 1924 to an upper-middle class Jewish family living in southeastern Poland, near what was at that time the border with Romania. At the start of 1939 Renia began a diary. ¿I just want a friend. I want somebody to talk to about my everyday worries and joys. Somebody who would feel what I feel, who would believe me, who would never reveal my secrets. A human being can never be such a friend and that¿s why I have decided to look for a confidant in the form of a diary.¿ And so begins an extraordinary document of an adolescent girl¿s hopes and dreams. By the fall of 1939, Renia and her younger sister Elizabeth (n¿Ariana) were staying with their grandparents in Przemysl, a city in the south, just as the German and Soviet armies invaded Poland. Cut off from the