The Diary of Mary Berg : Growing Up in the Warsaw Ghetto - 75th Anniversary Edition (Edition 2) (Paperback)

from lubazuck

Mary Berg's diary told us of the everyday happenings surrounding the Holocaust for about 5 years during World War 2- the suffering of the people who got sent to the Warsaw Ghetto and then transferred to the Ghetto prisons. Eventually Mary and her family were traded for German prisoners and came t...

from babs605

A very powerful story. We've all learned about what the Nazis did during the war, but this is an eyewitness account of the horrors that the Jewish population of Warsaw actually endured. It should be a must read, right up there with the Diary of Anne Frank

from Beammey

What a moving, but inspiring book. I cried and cried. I laughed and laughed. I cried some more. I knew this would be a hard book to read, and it was! But it was so well written and so worth the read. These are the stories people need to know. People need to know what really happened. The story te...

from susan0316

This diary was originally published right after WWII and re-issed recently. It was written by Mary Berg who lived on the outskirts of the Warsaw ghetto and observed on a daily basis the inhumanity shown to the Jewidh people by the Nazis. Even though she was only 15 when she started the diary, her...

from lorimarie

This was an extremely well written book. My first thought was that it would be similar to Anne Frank. But although we had the day to day life, there was less introspection. Which is fine, for the day to day drama of just existing in that terrible world makes for gut wrenching reading. I think thi...