Overview
- Brief Narrative
- Newpaper fragment wrapping a diary (2002.74.1) that 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 it in this newspaper. In August 1998, shortly before her death, Lusia Schwarzwald Hornstein gave the diary to to her children.
- Date
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publication/distribution:
1945 July 11
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the family of Lusia Hornstein
Physical Details
- Language
- Polish
- Classification
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Books and Published Materials
- Category
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Newspapers
- Object Type
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Polish newspapers (lcsh)
- Genre/Form
- Newspapers.
- Extent
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1 newspaper.
- Materials
- overall : paper, ink
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
Keywords & Subjects
- Personal Name
- Debora.
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The newspaper wrapping was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2002 by by the family of Lusia Hornstein.
- Record last modified:
- 2022-07-28 18:11:20
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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
Debora's diary
Document
The collection includes a diary written in 1943 by a young woman named Debora (last name unknown) 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 she not survive. Debora was killed by a bomb in Warsaw during the Polish uprising in 1944. In the diary Debora writes about living in hiding, poor living conditions in the bunker, looking for her mother, learning that her mother was killed, and burying her mother. Lusia recovered the diary in March 1945 from behind a radiator in a burned-out house where they lived under false papers and wrapped it in a newspaper. After the war, Lusia married her husband in 1948 and they immigrated to the United States in 1951.
