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Holocaust diarists
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The list Holocaust diarists includes
Anne Frank, Rutka Laskier, Petr Ginz, Hélène Berr and Helga Deen.
The list consists of 35 members
and 1 sublist.
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Anne Frank
Jewish diarist
Overview: Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank ( 12 June 1929 – February or March 1945) was a German-Dutch diarist of Jewish heritage. One of the most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust, she gained fame posthumously ...Date of birth: 12 June 1929Date of death: 12 March 1945Age: 15 (age at death)Nationality: GermanOccupation: WriterGender: FemaleHeight: 5' 4" (163 cm)
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Rutka Laskier
diarist
Overview: Rut "Rutka" Laskier (June 12, 1929–1943) was a Jewish Polish diarist who is best known for her 1943 diary chronicling the three months of her life during the Holocaust in Poland. She was murdered ...Date of birth: 12 June 1929Date of death: December 1943Age: 14 (age at death)Nationality: PolishOccupation: WriterGender: Female 0
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Petr Ginz
Czechoslovak writer
Overview: Petr Ginz (1 February 1928 – 28 September 1944) was a Czechoslovak boy of partial Jewish background who was deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp (also known as Terezín, in Czech) during the ...Date of birth: 1 February 1928Date of death: 28 September 1944Age: 16 (age at death)Nationality: CzechOccupation: WriterGender: Male 0
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Hélène Berr
French writer
Overview: Hélène Berr (27 March 1921 – April 1945) was a French woman of Jewish ancestry and faith, who documented her life in a diary during the time of Nazi occupation of France. In France she is considered ...Date of birth: 27 March 1921Date of death: 10 April 1945Age: 24 (age at death)Nationality: FrenchOccupation: AuthorGender: Female 0
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Overview: Mary Berg (born Miriam Wattenberg; October 10, 1924 – April 2013) was a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto and author of a Holocaust diary, which contains her personal journal entries written between October ...Date of birth: 10 October 1924Date of death: 1 April 2013Age: 88 (age at death)Occupation: WriterGender: Female 0
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Věra Kohnová
Jewish diarist
Overview: Věra Kohnová (26 June 1929 – 1942) was a young Czechoslovakian Jewish diarist who wrote a diary about her feelings and about events during the Nazi occupation. Her diary was published in 2006.Date of birth: 1929Date of death: 22 January 1942Age: 12 (age at death)Nationality: CzechOccupation: WriterGender: Female 0
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Helga Deen
Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim (1925–1943)
Overview: Helga Deen (6 April 1925 – 16 July 1943) was a Jewish diarist whose diary was discovered in 2004, which describes her stay in a Dutch prison camp, Kamp Vught, where she was brought during World War II ...Date of birth: 6 April 1925Date of death: 16 July 1943Age: 18 (age at death)Nationality: DutchOccupation: WriterGender: Female 0
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Tanya Savicheva
Russian diarist (1930–1944)
Overview: Tatyana Nikolayevna Savicheva (Russian: Татья́на Никола́евна Са́вичева), commonly referred to as Tanya Savicheva (23 January 1930 – 1 July 1944), was a Russian teenage diarist who kept a diary in 1942 ...Date of birth: 23 January 1930Date of death: 1 July 1944Age: 14 (age at death)Nationality: RussianOccupation: WriterGender: Female 0
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Etty Hillesum
Dutch writer
Overview: Esther "Etty" Hillesum (15 January 1914 – 30 November 1943) was the Dutch author of confessional letters and diaries which describe both her religious awakening and the persecutions of Jewish people in ...Date of birth: 15 January 1914Date of death: 30 November 1943Age: 29 (age at death)Nationality: DutchOccupation: WriterGender: Female 0
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Nonna Bannister
American writer
Overview: Nonna Bannister (neė Lisowskaja; 22 September 1927 – 15 August 2004) was a Russian-American author and Holocaust survivor. She is best known for her memoir, The Secret Holocaust Diaries: The Untold Story ...Date of birth: 22 September 1927Date of death: 15 August 2004Age: 76 (age at death)Nationality: RussianOccupation: WriterGender: Female 0
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David Koker
Dutch Holocaust victim
Overview: The Jewish student David Koker (27 November 1921 - 23 February 1945) lived with his family in Amsterdam until he was captured on the night of 11 February 1943 and transported to camp Vught.Date of birth: 27 November 1921Date of death: 23 February 1945Age: 23 (age at death)Nationality: DutchOccupation: WriterGender: Male 0
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Calel Perechodnik
Polish resistance fighter
Overview: Calel (Calek) Perechodnik (8 September 1916 – October 1944) was a diarist who joined the Jewish Ghetto Police in the Otwock Ghetto during the Nazi German occupation of Poland. His wartime diaries were ...Date of birth: 8 September 1916Date of death: 1 August 1944Age: 27 (age at death)Nationality: PolishOccupation: WriterGender: Male 0
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13.Overview: Anna Heilman, born Hana Wajcblum (1 December 1928 – 1 May 2011), referred to in other sources as Hanka or Chana Weissman, was one of the surviving prisoners from Auschwitz who plotted to blow up the c ... 0
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Yitskhok Rudashevski
Lithuanian Jewish diarist
Overview: Yitskhok Rudashevski (10 December 1927, Vilnius – 1 October 1943) was a young Jewish teenager who lived in the Vilna Ghetto in Lithuania during the 1940s. He wrote a diary from June 1941 to April 1943 ...Date of birth: 10 December 1927Date of death: 1 October 1943Age: 15 (age at death)Nationality: PolishOccupation: WriterGender: Male 0
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Victor Klemperer
German romance languages scholar and diarist
Overview: Victor Klemperer (9 October 1881 – 11 February 1960) was a German Romance languages scholar who also became known as a diarist. His journals, published in Germany in 1995, detailed his life under ...Date of birth: 9 October 1881Date of death: 11 February 1960Age: 78 (age at death)Nationality: GermanOccupation: PhilosopherGender: Male 0
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Janusz Korczak
Polish educator and children's author (1879–1942)
Overview: Janusz Korczak, the pen name of Henryk Goldszmit (22 July 1878 or 1879 – 7 August 1942), was a Polish Jewish educator, children's author, and pedagogue known as Pan Doktor ("Mr. Doctor") or Stary Doktor ...Date of birth: 22 July 1878Date of death: 1 August 1942Age: 64 (age at death)Nationality: PolishOccupation: WriterGender: Male 0
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Eva Heyman
Jewish-Hungarian Holocaust victim
Overview: Eva Heyman (Hungarian: Heyman Éva, 13 February 1931 – 17 October 1944) was a Jewish girl from Oradea. She began keeping a diary in 1944 during the German occupation of Hungary. Published under the name ...Date of birth: 13 February 1931Date of death: 17 October 1944Age: 13 (age at death)Occupation: Diarist 0
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Miriam Chaszczewacki
Holocaust victimOverview: Miriam Chaszczewacki or Miriam Chaszczewacka (1924–1942) was a 15-year-old Jewish girl and Holocaust victim who in 1939 began writing a personal diary about her life in the Radomsko ghetto which ended ...Nationality: PolishOccupation: WriterGender: Female 0
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Leib Langfus
Polish rabbiOverview: Leib Langfus, or also Leyb Langfus, was one of the victims of Auschwitz-Birkenau. A rabbi and Dayan (rabbinical judge) in Maków Mazowiecki he was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1942, where he was ...Occupation: Writer 0
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Rywka Lipszyc
POlish concentration camp survivor
Overview: Rywka Bajla Lipszyc (ʁivka lipʃitz) (September 15, 1929 – 1945?) was a Polish-Jewish teenage girl who wrote a personal diary while in the Łódź Ghetto during the Holocaust in Poland. She survived deportation ... 0
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