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

ISBN: 1786073404

Author: Berg, Mary

Condition: New

The first eye-witness account ever published of life in the Warsaw GhettoMary Berg was fifteen when the German army poured into Poland in 1939. She survived four years of Nazi terror, and managed to keep a diary throughout.This astonishing, vivid portrayal of life inside the Warsaw Ghetto ranks with the most significant documents of the Second World War. Mary Berg candidly chronicles not only the daily deprivations and mass deportations, but also the resistance and resilience of the inhabitants, their secret societies, and the youth at the forefront of the fight against Nazi terror.Above all The Diary of Mary Berg is a uniquely personal story of a life-loving girls encounter with unparalleled human suffering, and offers an extraordinary insight into one of the darkest chapters of human history.

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