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    Although Anne Frank is the most well-known victim of the Holocaust, she was not the only young Jewish girl who left a powerful record behind. The November issue of Smithsonian magazine recently translated the diary of Renia Spiegel, a 17-year-old girl who spent her final days imprisoned in a ghetto in Nazi-occupied Poland. 

    This Wednesday, November 7 at 1:00 PM (ET), a United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) program focuses on vivid observations of other young diarists. Their accounts reveal the escalating persecution against Jews following the warning signs of Kristallnacht. The 80th anniversary of this event (known in English as Night of Broken Glass) will be observed on November 9.

    Speakers for the November 7 program include:

    • Alexandra Bellak, Niece of diarist 
    • Elizabeth Bellak, Sister of diarist Renia Spiegel
    • Alexandra Zapruder, Author of Salvaged Pages: Young Writers’ Diaries of the Holocaust and Twenty-Six Seconds: A Personal History of the Zapruder Film; currently guest curator for And Still I Write: Young Diarists on War and Genocide opening in spring 2020 at the Holocaust Museum Houston.
    • Dr. Edna Friedberg, USHMM Historian, will serve as Moderator

    The November 7 program may be watched here.

    Holocaust   Diary of Anne Frank   United States Holocaust Memorial Museum   Renia Spiegel   Alexandra Zapruder

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    A recording of this excellent program "80 Years after Kristallnacht: Diarists of the Holocaust" is available on through the USHMM YouTube channel.

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