Lena Jedwab

Girl with Two Landscapes

The Wartime Diary of Lena Jedwab, 1941-1945

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Produktbeschreibung

In June, 1941, sixteen-year-old Lena Jedwab left Bialystok for summer camp in Russia - just when Germany invaded the Soviet Union. Stranded by war in a children's home in Russia, Lena agonized over the unknown fate of her family and her precarious future. Lucky to be alive, nourished, and in school, yet consumed with anger at the war and the confusion of adolescence, Lena began to keep a diary. The diary chronicles her personal experiences of loneliness, pain, fear, and desire for love and recognition, as well as a vivid description of the world in which she then lived. Lena wrote her diary in Yiddish, not only because it was her mother tongue, but also as a conscious effort to maintain her Jewish identity. Her writing shows an exceptional literary talent, full of subtlety and sensitivity, and by using that talent, she has left us a moving testimony to one of history's darkest times.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: White Goat Press
• Seitenzahl: 190
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 130mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9798987160978
• Artikelnr.: 69213651

Autorenporträt

Lena Jedwab Rozenberg was born in 1924 to a Jewish family in Bialystok, Poland. In 1941, when she was 16, war broke out between Germany and the Soviet Union and the summer camp where she was working was evacuated. Lena ended up in a children's home in western Russia, isolated from friends and family, until 1943 when she began her studies in Moscow. She kept a diary, in Yiddish, from 1941 to 1945, where she reflected on the fate of her family (years after the war she learned that they were murdered at Treblinka) and her own future. Lena's diary was originally published in Yiddish in 1999 and has since been translated into other languages. She died in 2005.