Salvaged Pages Young Writers' Diaries of the Holocaust Alexandra Zapruder

This is a stirring collection of diaries written by young people, ages 12 to 22, during the Holocaust. Some of the writers were refugees, others were hiding or passing as non-Jews, some were imprisoned in ghettos, and nearly all perished before liberation.

"Written in fear and darkness by Jewish children and adolescents, while waiting for death by SS executioners and their accomplices, these extraordinary diaries will resonate in the reader's broken heart for many days and many nights." Elie Wiesel; "Written with the candour and the guilelessness of youth, these rescued fragments give us newly raw insights into the conditions of life and death during the Holocaust and unvarnished glimpses of individual responses to circumstances of extremity. An important and a poignant collection." Eva Hoffman, author of The Secret; "I was impressed with the emotional power, the literary subtlety, and the historic significance of the work." Joshua Beckman, Hadassah Magazine"