I think you may be talking about a new book published last June by Yad Vashem:

Laskier, Rutka
Rutka's notebook - January-April 1943
Yad Vashem, 08/2007   $24.00  paperback, 60 p.

Description:
A girl from Bedzin, Poland, age 14, the same age as the Dutch 
teenager Anne Frank, kept a diary for a few brief months in 1943.

The outside world slowly closed down on her, but these few sheets of 
paper - some 60 handwritten pages in a notebook - reflect both the 
horrors of the Holocaust and the entire universe of an adolescent 
Jewish girl in the shadow of death.

Rutka shared the diary with her friend Stanislawa Sapinska. The two 
met after Rutka's family moved into a home owned by Sapinska's family 
that had been confiscated by the Nazis so that it could be included 
in the ghetto.The two became friendly and when Rutka told her that 
she felt she would not survive, Stanislawa offered to hide the diary 
in the basement under one of the floorboards. At the end of the war, 
Stanislawa returned to the house and found the hidden diary. She kept 
the diary in her home library for more than 60 years and recently 
decided to make it available to the public.

The last entry is from 24 April 1943. In August, Rutka and her family 
were deported to Auschwitz. She is believed to have been murdered 
upon arrival. Rutka's father, Yaakov, was the family's only survivor. 
He moved to Israel where he began a new family, a family who has now 
been given the rare opportunity to get to know a sister and an aunt 
who was murdered long before they were born.

Sherry Wasserman
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]


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