Rutka laskier biography books

Franz Kafka. Rutka Laskier - Biography Rutka Ruth Laskier — was a Jewish teenager from Poland who is best known for her diary chronicling three months of her life during the Holocaust. The article is about these people: Rutka Laskier. Welcome to JewAge! Learn about the origins of your family. People Places Stories Recent changes. Contents 1 Biography 2 Diary 3 Discovery of Laskier's diary 3.

Rutka's Notebook: A Voice from the Holocaust. More than sixty years after her death in Auschwitz, the words of fourteen-year-old Rutka Laskier, a young Jewish girl from Bedzin, Poland, offer a poignant study of the everyday lives of Polish Jews caught up in the Holocaust. Loading interface About the author. Rutka Laskier 2 books 10 followers.

Write a Review. Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book! Community Reviews. Search review text. Displaying 1 - 30 of reviews. I've been trying to formulate this review in my head since finishing this thought provoking and extremely poignant book. I suppose after further contemplation I've been thinking about what I would say before finishing.

I wanted to share the thoughts and feelings that I was experiencing while reading but then I would have had to write a page by page review since nearly every page reached out and grabbed me. This book was so difficult for me. It's a mere 86 pages and it took me just shy of a week to read. I could only take it in small doses. I had to set it aside and read something else before coming back.

Certainly not because it was poorly written or uninteresting, quite the contrary, it reached into my soul and tore me apart. I sometimes felt physically ill reading this beautiful young girls words. I cried continually and felt bitter anger at the unfairness and inhumane end Rutka and so many like her endured. My son is 13 years old, just months younger than this young lady and that fact continually entered my mind as I sat thinking about all of the "what ifs" only a parent could interject into this memoir.

I lost my breath and bawled when she talked about "something being broken inside" and proceeded to calmly describe the murder of a Jewish child in front of his mother by a Nazi. I know it hurt and scared her but fear apparently became so common her ability to process it was suppressed as a result of her own self preservation mechanisms.

I read a few reviews here that were unkind to this book. One went as far as to say "what's the point? Hopefully as they mature the memory of this book will surface and they will be ashamed by their words. I will speak to some of the people who also thought that Rutka was "boring" or mean. Let us not forget she was a 14 year old child, just coming into adult feelings.

That is a difficult time in anyone's life. I cannot begin to imagine what it was like set against the backdrop of the war and the knowledge of the holocaust yes they knew what was happening and feared it every second. I honestly found her waffling on falling in love with the boy Janek as a sign she had not lost her humanity. It made me happy to see she was experiencing the things all teens think about.

Also we must remember there was no Anne Frank to compare her writing to. Rutka was simply a 14 year old girl writing her thoughts and not expecting maybe hoping though that we would be reading them 60 years later. So I'll sum up this review with Learn the lessons it attempts to teach so that we as a society never allow such horrible evil deeds to happen ever again.

Czytam Sercem. It seemed fitting to read as I continue on with my personal interest of reading historical fiction books set during World War II. In fact, I think my personal interest is what's renewing my energy and motivation to keep reading. It acts as a counter measure against the dreadful required readings for classes. Rutka's diary is a lot shorter than Anne's, but it is by no means inferior to hers.

I knew there was no happy ending, as I watched the documentary in the last week of , but it still tugged on my heartstrings. I also greatly appreciated the extra content within the book. There are photographs, footnotes to help, and there are pieces by Rutka's half-sister, Zahava Laskier. I'm glad her story is out there for the world to know.

Mercedes Moya.

Rutka laskier biography books

Me da pena que se haya podido recuperar tan poca parte del diario. Eva-Marie Nevarez. This is a diary from an approximate four month period from a teenage girl. The notebook she was writing in was hidden beneath her stairs when her and her family was sent from the ghetto where they were living to a Nazi camp. She was murdered at Auschwitz concentration camp in at the age of fourteen.

Her manuscript, authenticated by Yad Vashem , was published in the Polish language in early English and Hebrew translations were released the following year. It has been compared to the diary of Anne Frank. Laskier's diary has been a focus of a BBC documentary and of the musical Rutka. It quickly began to engage in anti-Semitic violence and state-sponsored discrimination.

Many Jews were fired from their positions and fled Danzig. Her diary remained in the hands of Rutka's surviving friend for 64 years and was not released to the public until Rutka was deported from the ghetto and was believed to have been murdered in a gas chamber , age 14, along with her mother and brother, upon arrival with her family at the Auschwitz concentration camp in August However, when her diary appeared in a book, it was revealed in that she was not sent to the gas chambers along with them.

Zofia Minc later Galler , a fellow prisoner who survived, revealed in a published account of her time at Auschwitz, that Laskier slept in the barrack next to her until falling victim to a cholera outbreak in December Another prisoner pushed Laskier, still alive, in a wheelbarrow to an underground gas chamber. According to Zahava Scherz, Israeli-born daughter of Rutka's father by his subsequent marriage, [ 5 ] Rutka begged Zofia to take her to the electric fence so she could kill herself, but an SS guard following them would not allow it.

Rutka was then taken directly to the crematory. Rutka's father was the only member of the family who survived the Holocaust. He died in Scherz asked her father who they were, and he answered her truthfully, but never spoke of it again. No Jacket. Spine may show signs of wear. Seller Inventory GI3N May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked.

Seller Inventory GI4N Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Rutka Laskier.