Polish Girl's Holocaust Diary Unveiled

[KYS]

The horrors what Rutka and others went through I will never fathom.
I will never understand how something like this ever happened, and
what's scary could happen again.
I am sure her diary will now be shared/treasured by many.

Not to take away from you post:
Though not a holocaust: but even today their are horror stories in countries such as Somalia.

[Marigold2]

This is what my sweet mom went through. She was sent to concentration camp at 17 with her family. Out of 11 children she was the only one to survive.

Unless this is part of your family your close history you cannot imagine the horror. My mom hardly spoke of it. Her job was to bury the dead. I don't know how she lived through that and kept her sanity and her kindness but she did.

People were killed for all kinds of reasons. Not just the Jewish. The evilness of mankind is so far beyond what most can imagine.

My mom always said "there are worst things then death" she knew what she was talking about.

[dukedogsmom]

Marigold, that is just too tragic. I don't know how your mother dealt with that and lived through it. I think, had I been her, I might have wished not to live. And that she was a sweet woman is even more of a miracle. That is so sad about her siblings.

[Alysser]

This is what my sweet mom went through. She was sent to concentration camp at 17 with her family. Out of 11 children she was the only one to survive.

Unless this is part of your family your close history you cannot imagine the horror. My mom hardly spoke of it. Her job was to bury the dead. I don't know how she lived through that and kept her sanity and her kindness but she did.

People were killed for all kinds of reasons. Not just the Jewish. The evilness of mankind is so far beyond what most can imagine.

My mom always said "there are worst things then death" she knew what she was talking about.

That is terrifying Marigold.

I just finished this as a lesson in school. It was mostly just on Anne's Franks story. We watched the movie and the ending was really sad where her sister dies in that camp. Alot of my friends said they cried in class. We also had a Holocaust survivor come to our school and tell us his story, he was very lucky. But to tell you the truth, the school can only teach us the facts. We will never really know what living like that felt like, even if we saw those concentration camps today. It's really an undescribable feeling being locked away from the world like some criminal because you're different in some way.

When I think about it, I can't even describe my feelings toward it.