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Debora's diary

Document | Accession Number: 2002.74.1

The diary was written by a young woman named Debora who fought with the Polish underground in Warsaw. Debora hid the diary and told her friend Lusia Schwarzwald Hornstein, a fellow underground fighter, where to find it should Debora not survive. Debora was killed by a bomb in Warsaw during the Polish uprising in 1944. Lusia recovered the diary in March 1945 from behind a radiator in a burned-out house, and wrapped in in a newspaper (2002.74.2). In August 1998, shortly before her death, Lusia Schwarzwald Hornstein gave the diary to to her children.

Language
Polish
Genre/Form
Personal narratives.
Extent
1 diary.
Credit Line
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the family of Lusia Hornstein
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Keywords and Subjects

Topical Term
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Personal Name
Debora.

Administrative History

Legal Status
Permanent Collection
Provenance
The diary was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by Lusia Schwarzwald Hornstein's family in 2002.

Rights and Restrictions

Conditions on Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions on Use
No restrictions on use
 
Record last modified: 2017-09-12 11:53:13
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Also in Lusia Schwarzwald Hornstein collection

Consists of a diary: written by "Deborah" in the Warsaw ghetto, wrapped in a Polish newspaper, dated 11 July 1945; Deborah (last name unknown) was killed by a bomb in Warsaw during the Polish uprising in 1944. Lusia Hornstein (donor's mother and a friend of Deborah's) retrieved the diary in the Spring of 1945 from a burned out home where she was living under false papers

Newspaper

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