The Secret Holocaust Diaries : The Untold Story of Nonna Bannister (Hardcover)

from CraftyD

It was a wonderful book. Being able to see what Nonna went through in her own words brought a realization to me of how grateful we should be for our day to day "problems" and how we should show love to all on a day to day basis. What we do and say can touch an untold number of people and we never...

from taramatchi

What a wonderful story about an extraordinary woman. Her life before the war was as interesting to me as her accounts of the war and her life in the labor camps. I especially loved her accounts of Christmastime with her grandmother. The editors notes throughout the book were very helpful with cla...

from pandoragreen

Well written. Heart wrenching, as you'd expect from something covering the holocaust, but also extremely interesting. The pre-holocaust accounts of life in Russia were fascinating. I didn't care for the sidebars throughout, which made this feel life a gradeschool textbook. There was a definite to...

from tshay

Having read and seen many different perspectives of the Holocaust i was surprised to find a much different view. This book follows the life of a young Russian girl and her family. Nonna's family is very well off, her father an inventor and a whiz with languages (five of which he taught Nonna), he...

from halo776

Nonna Bannister records a fresh, unique perspective about the Holocaust. As an elderly American woman, she began translating her childhood diaries into English and eventually shared them with her husband. After her death, they were edited and published in this form. There are various stories here...