A01=Halina Nelken
Auschwitz survivor testimony
Author_Halina Nelken
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concentration camp survival stories
cross-cultural Holocaust studies
diary as form of resistance
diary as historical document
diary writing under oppression
diary-based historical research
early diary writings of war
Eastern European Jewish communities
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eyewitness perspective on atrocities
female eyewitness accounts
female Holocaust survivors
historical authenticity in survivor accounts
historical eyewitness account
historical memory of genocide
Holocaust diaries and memoirs
Holocaust education resources
Holocaust in Poland
Holocaust literature scholarship
intergenerational memory of trauma
Jewish ghetto experiences
Jewish life in Krakow
Jewish persecution narratives
Jewish resistance and coping
life in Nazi-controlled ghettos
life under Nazi rule
memoir and diary translation
memoirs of Nazi terror
middle-class Jewish family history
Nazi occupation of Poland
occupied Europe in 1939-1945
personal documentation of genocide
personal witness to persecution
Plaszow concentration camp accounts
Polish Jewish cultural history
postwar reflections on Holocaust
primary sources of Holocaust history
Ravensbruck camp history
remembrance and testimony in literature
smuggling diaries during war
survivor narrative analysis
teenage perspective on genocide
testimonial literature
translating survivor texts
unique adolescent perspective
wartime adolescence memoirs
wartime record keeping
World War II personal narratives
youth experience of war
Product details
- ISBN 9781558492929
- Weight: 514g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 09 Apr 2001
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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When Germany invaded Poland in 1939, Halina Nelken was a precocious 15-year-old, living a middle-class life in Krakow. Like other girls her age, she recorded her personal observations and feelings in a diary. As conditions in Krakow deteriorated and her family was forced into the Jewish ghetto, she continued to write, eventually smuggling her diary out with a Catholic friend. This book tells the story of Nelken's experiences in the ghetto and later in eight Nazi concentration camps, including Plaszow, Auschwitz, and Ravensbruck. Her diary entries, written between 1938 and 1943, form the core of the volume and are supplemented by recollections written shortly after the war, and by later commentaries and explanatory notes which she added in the mid-1980s. Although there exist numerous published and unpublished memoirs by Holocaust survivors, Nelken's book presents one of the few extant diaries written at the time.
After World War II, HALINA NELKEN pursued a career as an art historian, moving to the United States in 1959. She now lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
