A New York Times bestseller
A USA Today bestseller
The long-hidden diary of a young Polish woman''s life during the Holocaust, translated for the first time into English
"The publication of Renia''s Diary offers a reminder of the power of bearing witness." -The New York Times
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
