A trăi infernul. Jurnale din timpul Holocaustului ale copiilor și tinerilor
Living in the Inferno. The Holocaust Diaries of Children and Young People

Summary/Abstract: The diaries kept by children and young people during the Holocaust are one of the most intriguing phenomenon. To the young people caught in the concentration inferno, the diary is more than a personal tool of self-reflection but their only chance to fight totalitarian power. During the atrocities of World War II (persecution, deportations, relocations, ghettoization and, in particular, mass executions), the diary is their opportunity to leave a testimony of the suffering caused by the arbitrary and irrational violence of a criminal ideology. In fact, the diary is the only way to preserve the real experiences and emotions they lived in a violent universe that threatened their very existence. Unfortunately, many of them did not survive, but only their pages did, filled with the tension of an uneven struggle. In their pages survived something of their spirit and the authentic story of how the once thriving European Jewry was almost completely destroyed. Unlike the Holocaust written memories, which are stories of survival, the diary is the survival itself. This paper aims to give a general description of this phenomenon to be further explored in an analysis of a number of similar diaries from the Romanian space.

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