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Rutka's Notebook: A Voice from the Holocaust
by Editors of Time Magazine, Yad Vashem
from Time / Yad Vashem

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• Nice book
  This journal is short, but valuable for history telling of a young Polish girl during World War II. The narrations are important for perspective.

• Disappointing...
  I was very anxious to get a copy of this book as it was so highly recommended through the Yad Vashem Museum. But, when I finally got it and read it (it was very short), I was disappointed that there was so little written by the girl herself. And, what was written, was mostly the emotional ups and downs of a young teen about her relationships with piers and family. Simply, it did not compare with "The Diary of Anne Frank".

• decent, but no frank
  I bought this after the Time Magazine Review, but have to say that although informative and inspiring- it was due mainly to the editorial interjection and afterward by the editors rather than the author. The work required a great deal of explanation.
  Be prepared that although it is a great work of history, you will need the labors of the editors and translators to understand fully whereas Frank was easily understood by any audience.

• Unadorned
  There are some stories that need no adornment. This is one. Rutka Laskier was 14 and she knew she was going to die. Likely, contacts from the underground told her family of the death camps. She wrote in a diary. She sees an old man beaten to death. A soldier bludgeoning a child. She does not believe there is a God. "if only I could say, it's over, you die only once...but I can't, despite all these atrocties I want to live, and wait for the following day. That means, waiting for Auschwitz or labor camp." She... more info

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