Israel’s Holocaust museum has unveiled the diary of a 14-year-old Jewish girl, 60 years after she described the desparate situation of Polish Jews confined in a ghetto.
“The rope around us is getting tighter and tighter,” wrote Rutka Laskier in 1943, shortly before she was deported to Auschwitz, the Nazi death camp where she died. “I’m turning into an animal waiting to die.”
“Rutka’s Diary,” which a childhood friend of Laskier’s kept in a private library for 60 years, is now on display at Yad Vashem, a museum dedicated to the Holocaust.
