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Cargando... Renia's Diary: A Holocaust Journalpor Renia SPIEGEL
   Ninguno Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro.   IreneCole | Jul 27, 2022 |   ) Micareads | Jun 21, 2022 | As you can imagine, the diary entries are about Renia’s daily life. When she starts the diary, she is living with her grandparents. Her parents are in Warsaw and have been traveling with her sister who is a child actress. As expected, most of the writing is centered around school, her friends and her longing for her family, mainly her Mother. At the beginning, she does speak occasionally of the troubling times and a few of the historical events. As Renia gets older, she talks about going to parties with friends, dating and dreams about the future. She goes to movies and takes long walks with Zygument (Zygu), her boyfriend. In December of 1941 she decides to start writing about the war. She says, “Blood is flowing, cities are ruined, people are dying.” Despite her declaration, most of her writing remains the same. It is obvious Renia is deeply religious. All throughout the diary she periodic asked God to take care of her and her family. Later in the diary, most entries end with a plea, “You will help me, Bulus and God”. Even though she did not mention the trying times often, they must have weighed heavily on her mind. Sadly, her life ends shortly after her 18th birthday. The final few diary entries are made by Renia’s boyfriend, Zygu, because she along with his parents are shot in July 1942. The prose I struggled with because it was written by someone so young and was of course immature. She talked about life with her friends and petty things that happened to her and others. As she gets older, the discuss turns to going to parties and boys and finally falling in love. It is difficult to compare this book to other works of nonfiction because it is a diary and not a book. It was never written for or intended to be read by an end consumer. Therefore, I struggled with how to assign any kind of rating to a nonliterary work? Ultimately, I choose my rating mostly based on the poetry contained in the diary. There was a lot of poetry in the diary. Enough for an entire collection to be published of just the poetry. There were all types of poems, long (some ran several pages) to short, some sad, some lively and some longing. Regardless of the theme, they were lovely. The poems are the real star of the book. I found it to be not only good, but contemplative. For the prose to be so immature, the poetry was the exact opposite. I am left wondering what her poetry would have been like if she had lived. Would she have been a great poet in the 20th century? I received a free copy from the publisher in exchange for my honest review. (  ) purpledog | Jul 10, 2020 | Sergey Yarov wrote brilliantly about morality in the siege of Leningrad during World War II. He read a lot of previously redacted diaries that belonged to people who were part of the siege. Those diaries told a clear tale of how things changed gradually, and how what was once considered extreme behaviours were normalised, from making potato-skin soup to pilfering corpses for food stamps. Equally, Viktor Klemperer‘s essential diaries from World War II told a most chilling tale where Jews were violently targeted, people that weren’t The Teutonic Ideal were persecuted, and entire populations razed off the face of the Earth. But not without testimony. Most importantly, diaries offer us something that memoirs do not: an emotional immediacy. And it is this immediacy that is so very compelling. I am reminded of Helene Berr, the Israelite young Parisian woman who kept a diary from 1942 through to the day she and her parents were rounded up in March 1944. Fortuitously, she begins to write but a short time before the decree that all Jews must wear a yellow star. The above is part of the introduction that is written by Renia’s sister, Ariana Spiegel, who is currently named Elizabeth Leszczyska Bellak. JANUARY 31, 1939 Renia was fourteen years old when she started her diary, a tumultuous time for any teenager, for sure. She writes of everyday troubles, of boys that she likes, of friends, family, her constant longing for her mother, and to begin with, this diary offers a reprieve from all things sensationalistic – which is exactly why it is extraordinary; the horrors of World War seep in over time. FEBRUARY 13, 1939 There are naturally sudden changes all throughout the book, as war is seldom predictable, especially for the victims. SEPTEMBER 10, 1939 One stand-out thing about Renia is her poetry. She writes poetry all throughout her diary, about all kinds of things. To me, it is apparent how the poetry changes, both from her age and also from the war. Even if your beauty could outshine that of Greek goddesses’ line Her words on her love interests radiate from the page: JANUARY 5, 1941, SUNDAY Her true beloved, Zygu, shines through the pages, even when he is “a boor”, and their love is mutual. It makes me remember the turmoils and torpor that youth entails. JULY 1, 1941 Zygu and Renia loved each other dearly, seemingly as she loved her mother. Renia’s sister, Elizabeth, provides a loving epilogue to this book, which also details as much as we know happened to Renia, and also to Zygmunt (Zygu). This diary stood the test of time, and will forever be a tome over what happened to a young person who was murdered during the Holocaust. (  ) pivic | Mar 21, 2020 | The majority of Renia’s Diary, as any young girl’s diary might be, was filled endlessly about boys and friends and parties. That was about 95% of the entire book and rightly so — but it was a bit deceiving, as this is sold as a Holocaust journal. It was not really about the Holocaust or the trauma Renia or her family experienced. It seems a little dishonest to sell it in such a way and thus I can understand the low-starred reviews. I will not rate this because how dare I rate a young, innocent girl’s private words that weren’t intended to be shared? Every story of the Holocaust, all twelve-plus million of them, deserve to be told and heard and never forgotten. Renia’s is one of those. Slevyr26 | Mar 1, 2020 | sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Tras permanecer oculto más de setenta años, sale a la luz el diario de una joven judía polaca que relata su adolescencia y sus últimos días durante el Holocausto. Un testimonio de vida profundamente humano, veraz e impactante. Un legado de poesía y amor. Miércoles, 15 de julio de 1942 «Recuerda este día, recuérdalo bien. Se lo contarás a las generaciones que están por venir. Desde las ocho de hoy estamos encerrados en el gueto. Ahora vivo aquí. El mundo está aislado de mí y yo estoy aislada del mundo.» Renia Spiegel tiene quince años y es una adolescente como muchas otras. Le gusta escribir poesía, reunirse con las amigas y divertirse. Pero Renia es judía, vive en Polonia y estamos en 1939. Con el inicio de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, su mundo empieza a desmoronarse. Ese mismo año comienza un diario. En él relata su adolescencia marcada por la añoranza de su madre, por la amistad y por el amor, además de las atrocidades que la rodean. Pese a todo, el diario es un texto lleno de sensibilidad y ganas de vivir, en el que Renia menciona también la pena que siente por los soldados alemanes que ve desfilar a través del muro, tan jóvenes, tan lejos de sus seres queridos y tan cerca de la muerte. Asimismo, describe emocionada la primera vez que besa a su novio, cuatro horas antes de que los nazis invadan la Unión Soviética, sus miedos y las terribles humillaciones durante la creación del gueto. Será precisamente el chico quien firmará la desgarradora última entrada del diario, tres años después de que Renia lo empiece. Este extraordinario y conmovedor relato, rescatado en condiciones increíbles, llegó a manos de la madre y la hermana de Renia, quienes sobrevivieron al Holocausto, y ha permanecido oculto durante más de siete décadas, hasta la actualidad. _________________________________________________________________ Este testimonio inédito viene acompañado por una introducción de la historiadora estadounidense Deborah Lipstadt y un cuadernillo de fotos, así como por un prefacio, un epílogo y unas notas de Elizabeth Bellak, la hermana menor de la autora. «Durante la lectura del diario recordé, como les sucederá a muchos lectores, la icónica obra de Anne Frank. A Renia Spiegel, una joven llena de amor por la vida y que poseía la habilidad de describir la belleza del mundo que la rodeaba, se le negó con una bala lo que tanto quería: un futuro. De no ser por este diario, habría terminado, junto a otros millones de personas, en el cruel olvido que la mayoría de las víctimas del Holocausto tuvieron como destino. La han "rescatado" quienes conservaron el diario y quienes trabajaron para publicarlo. No pudieron salvarla de su cruel final, ni pudieron darle el futuro que tanto ansiaba, pero la rescataron del dolor añadido de ser olvidada.» Deborah E. Lipstadt, profesora Dorot de Historia del Holocausto en la Universidad de Emory ENGLISH DESCRIPTION The long-hidden diary of a young Polish woman''s life during the Holocaust, translated for the first time into English 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 (née 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 their mother, who was in Warsaw, Renia and her family were plunged into war. Like Anne Frank, Renia''s diary became a record of her daily life as the Nazis spread throughout Europe. Renia writes of her mundane school life, her daily drama with best friends, falling in love with her boyfriend Zygmund, as well as the agony of missing her mother, separated by bombs and invading armies. Renia had aspirations to be a writer, and the diary is filled with her poignant and thoughtful poetry. When she was forced into the city''s ghetto with the other Jews, Zygmund is able to smuggle her out to hide with his parents, taking Renia out of the ghetto, but not, ultimately to safety. The diary ends in July 1942, completed by Zygmund, after Renia is murdered by the Gestapo. Renia''s Diary has been translated from the original Polish, and includes a preface, afterword, and notes by her surviving sister, Elizabeth Bellak. An extraordinary historical document, Renia Spiegel survives through the beauty of her words and the efforts of those who loved her and preserved her legacy. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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