Holocaust diaries and chronicles in English

© 2008. D. G. Myers, Department of English, Texas A&M University



Berg, Mary (1924– ). Warsaw Ghetto: A Diary. [Polish and Yiddish], Oct. 1939–Mar. 1944. Ed. S. L. Shneiderman.

Mary Berg
Trans. Norbert Guterman and Sylvia Glass. New York: L. B. Fischer, 1945.

Berr, Hélène (1921–1944). Journal: 1942–1944. Suivi de Hélène Berr [French]. Trans. David Bellos. New York: Weinstein, 2008.

Czerniakow, Adam (1880–1942). The Warsaw Diary: Prelude to Doom. Dziennik getta warszawskiego [Polish], Sept. 1939–July 1942. Ed. Raul Hilberg et al. Trans. Stanislaw Staron. New York: Stein & Day, 1979.

Davidson-Draenger, Gusta (1917/8–1943). Justyna’s Narrative. 1946. Pamietnik Justyny [Polish]. Ed. Eli Pfefferkorn and David H. Hirsch. Trans. Roslyn Hirsch. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1995.

Dimant, Ita. A Diary of the Holocaust. Brooklyn, 1993.

Diment, Michael (1915– ). The Lone Survivor: A Diary of the Lukacze Ghetto and Svyniukhy. New York: Holocaust Library, 1992.

Dobroszycki, Lucian, ed. The Chronicle of the Lodz Ghetto, 1941–1944. Kronika getta lódzkiego [Polish and German]. Trans. Richard Lourie, Joachim Neugroschel, and others. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984.

Dorian, Emil (1893–1956). The Quality of Witness: A Romanian Diary, 1937–1944. Jurnal din vremuri de prigoana [Romanian]. Ed. Marguerite Dorian. Trans. Mara Soceanu Vamos. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1982.

Flinker, Moshe (1926–1945). Young Moshe’s Diary: The Spiritual Torment of a Jewish Boy in Nazi Europe. 1958. Hanaar Moshe [Hebrew]. Ed. Shaul Esh.

Moshe Flinker

Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1965.

Frank, Anne (1929–1945). The Diary of a Young Girl. 1951. Het Achterhuis [Dutch], June 1942–Aug. 1944. Ed. Otto H. Frank and Mirjam Pressler. Trans. Susan Massotty. Definitive ed. Garden City: Doubleday, 1995.

Ginz, Petr (1928–1944). The Diary: 1941–1942. [Czech.] Ed. Chava Pressburger. Trans. Elena Lappin. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2007.

Hahn, Lili. White Flags of Surrender. [German], Jan. 1933–Mar. 1945. Trans. Sibyl Milton. Washington: R. B. Luce, 1974.

Harpanes, Yehezkel. Slingshot of Hell: Holocaust Journal. Bekhaf hakela [Hebrew]. Ed. Howard Shapiro. Jerusalem: Targum, 1988.

Herzberg, Abel J. (1893–1989). Between Two Streams: A Diary from Bergen-Belsen. 1950. Tweestromenland: Dagboek uit Bergen-Belsen [Dutch], Aug. 1944–Apr. 1945. Trans. Jack Santcross. London: I. B. Tauris, 1997.

Heyman, Éva (1931–1944). Diary. 1947. [Hungarian], Feb.–May 1944. Trans. Moshe M. Kohn. New York: Shapolsky, 1988.

Hillesum, Etty (1914–1943). Etty: The Letters and Diaries, 1941–1943. Etty: De

Etty Hillesum

nagelaten geschriften [Dutch]. Ed. Klaas A. D. Smelik. Trans. Arnold J. Pomerans. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2002.

Huberband, Shimon (1909–1942). Kiddush Hashem: Jewish Religious and Cultural Life in Poland during the Holocaust. [Yiddish]. Trans. David E. Fishman. New York: Yeshiva University Press, 1987.

Kahana, David (1903– ). Lvov Ghetto Diary. 1978. Yoman geto Levov [Hebrew], written 1943. Trans. Jerzy Michalowicz. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1990.

Kalmanovitsh, Zelig (1881–1944). "A Diary of the Nazi Ghetto in Vilna." Yoman be-geto Vilnah [Hebrew], July 1941–May 1943. Trans. Koppel S. Pinson. YIVO Annual of Jewish Social Science 8 (1953): 9–81.

Kantor, Alfred (1923– ). The Book of Alfred Kantor: An Artist’s Journal of the Holocaust. New York:

Yitzhak Katzenelson
McGraw-Hill, 1971.

Kaplan, Chaim A. (1880–ca. 1942). Scroll of Agony: The Warsaw Diary. Megilat yisurin [Hebrew], Sept. 1939–Aug. 1942. Trans. Abraham I. Katsh. New York: Macmillan, 1965.

Kaszas, Susan (1920–1990). From Love to Triumph: Holocaust Diary, Auschwitz, Poland, 1944–Dillich, Germany, 1945. Ed. June Marshall. Trans. Steven Kaszas. Ridgewood, N.J.: AIL NewMedia, 2002.

Katzenelson, Yitzhak (1886–1944). Vittel Diary. Pinkas Vitel [Hebrew], Apr.–Sept. 1943. Trans. Myer Cohen. Jerusalem: Ghetto Fighters‘ House, 1964.

Kermish, Joseph, ed. To Live with Honor and Die with Honor: Selected Documents from the Warsaw Ghetto Underground Archives "O.S." ["Oneg Shabbath"]. Trans. M. Z. Prives et al. Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1986.

Klonitski, Aryeh (1906–1943?). The Diary of Adam’s Father: The Diary of Aryeh Klonicki (Klonymus) and His Wife Malwina, with Letters concerning the Fate of Their Child Adam. Yoman avi Adam [Hebrew]. Trans. Avner Tomaschoff. Tel Aviv: Ghetto Fighters‘ House, 1973.

Korczak, Janusz (1878–1942). Ghetto Diary. Pamietnik z getta [Polish],

Janusz Korczak
Jan. 1940–Aug. 1942. Trans. Jerzy Bachrach and Barbara Krzywicka. New York: Holocaust Library, 1978.

Kruk, Herman (1897–1944). The Last Days of the Jerusalem of Lithuania: Chronicles from the Vilna Ghetto and the Camps, 1939–1944. Togbukh fun Vilner geto [Yiddish]. Ed. Benjamin Harshav. Trans. Barbara Harshav. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002.

Lambert, Raymond-Raoul (1894–1943). Diary of a Witness: 1940–1943. Carnet d'un témoin [French.] Ed. Richard I. Cohen. Trans. Isabel Best. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2007.

Lewin, Abraham (1893–1943). A Cup of Tears: A Diary of the Warsaw Ghetto. [Yiddish and Hebrew], Mar. 1942–Jan. 1943. Trans. Christopher Hutton. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1988.

Lieblich, Ruthka (1927–ca. 1943). Ruthka: A Diary of War. [Polish], Aug. 13, 1940–Dec. 28, 1942. Trans. Jehoshua and Anne Eibeshitz. Brooklyn: Remember, 1993.

Lissner, Abraham. "Diary of a Jewish Partisan in Paris." In They Fought Back: The Story of the Jewish Resistance in Nazi Europe. Ed. Yuri Suhl. New York: Schocken, 1967. Pp. 282–97.

Lustig, Oliver. Blood-Bespotted Diary. Jurnal însîngerat [Romanian]. Trans. Rodica Mihaela Scafes and Margareta Boaca. Bucharest: Editura Stiintifica si Enciclopedica, 1988.

Mechanicus, Philip (1889–1944). Year of Fear: A Jewish Prisoner Waits for Auschwitz. 1964. In Dépôt: Dagboek uit Westerbork [Dutch]. Trans. Irene R. Gibbons. New York: Hawthorn, 1968.

Novac, Ana (1929– ). The Beautiful Days of My Youth: My Six Months in Auschwitz and Plaszow. 1992. Les Beaux Jours de ma jeunesse [French]. Trans. George L. Newman. New York: Henry Holt, 1997.

Redlikh, Egon (1916–1944). The Terezin Diary of Gonda Redlich. Hayim ke-ilu [Hebrew and Czech], Jan. 1942–Oct. 1944. Ed. Saul S. Friedman. Trans. Laurence Kutler. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992.

Ringelblum, Emanuel (1900–1944). Notes from the Warsaw Ghetto. Notitsn fun Varshever geto [Yiddish], Jan.

Emanuel Ringelblum
1940–Dec. 1942. Trans. Jacob Sloan. New York: Schocken, 1958.

Rosenfeld, Oskar (1884–1944). In the Beginning Was the Ghetto: Notebooks from Lodz. 1994. Wozu noch Welt: Aufzeichnungen aus dem Getto Lodz [German], Feb. 1942–July 1944. Ed. Hanno Loewy. Trans. Brigitte M. Goldstein. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2002.

Roubícková, Eva Mándlová (1921– ). We‘re Alive and Life Goes On: A Theresienstadt Diary. Trans. Zaia Alexander. New York: Henry Holt, 1998.

Rozenberg, Lena Jebwab (1924– ). Girl with Two Landscapes: The Wartime Diary of Lena Jebwab, 1941–1945. Fun heym tsu na-vanad: milkhome togbukh [Yiddish], Oct. 1941–Apr. 1945. Trans. Solon Beinfeld. New York: Holmes & Meier, 2002.

Rubinowicz, Dawid (1927–1942). Diary. Pamietnik [Polish]. Trans. Derek Bowman. Edmonds, Wash.: Creative Options, 1982.

Rudashevski, Yitshak (1927–1943). The Diary of the Vilna Ghetto, June 1941–April 1943. Yomano shel naar mi-Vilna [Hebrew]. Tel Aviv: Ghetto Fighters‘ House, 1973.

Seidman, Hillel (ca. 1900–1995). Warsaw Ghetto Diaries. 1947. Togbukh fun Varshever geto [Yiddish], July 1942–Apr. 1943. Trans. Yosef Israel. Jerusalem: Targum Press, 1997.

Shapira, Kalonymos Kalmish (1889–1943). Sacred Fire: Torah from the Years of Fury, 1939–1942. Esh kodesh [Hebrew]. Ed. Deborah Miller. Trans. J. Hershy

Rabbi Shapira
Worch. Northvale, N.J.: Jason Aronson, 2000.

Sierakowiak, Dawid (1924–1943). Diary: Five Notebooks from the Lodz Ghetto. Dziennik [Polish], June 1939–Apr. 1943. Ed. Alan Adelson. Trans. Kamil Turowski. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Tory, Avraham (1909– 2002). Surviving the Holocaust: The Kovno Ghetto Diary. [Yiddish], June 1941–Jan. 1944. Trans. Jerzy Michalowicz. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1990.

Urman, Jerzy Feliks (1932–1943). I’m Not Even a Grown-Up: Diary. Trans. Anthony Rudolf and Joanna Voit. London: Menard Press, 1991.

Wells, Leon Weliczker (1925– ). "The Death Brigade." 1946. Brygada smierci [Polish], June–Sept. 1943. In The Janowska Road. New York: Macmillan, 1963. Pp. 133–97.

Zelkowicz, Josef (1897–1944). In Those Terrible Days: Notes from the Lodz Ghetto. In yeyne koshmarne teg [Yiddish]. Ed. Michael Unger. Trans. Naftali Greenwood. Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 2002.

Zuker-Bujanowska, Liliana (1928– ). Liliana’s Journal: Warsaw, 1939-1945. New York: Dial Press, 1980.

Zylberberg, Michael. The Warsaw Diary, 1939–1945. London: Vallentine, Mitchell, 1969.

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