The New Yorker: My Terezín Diary. “What is most striking to me today about the diary I kept in the camp, seventy-five years ago, is what I left out.” By Zuzana Justman, September 9, 2019.

“On a freezing day in January, 1944, after my family and I had been confined at Terezín for six months, my mother was arrested by the S.S. and placed in a basement cell in the dreaded prison at their camp headquarters. Not even her lover, who was a member of the Terezín Aeltestenrat, or Council of Elders—the Jewish governing body—could get her released. I was twelve years old, and I was afraid that I would never see her again. But on February 21, 1944, all I wrote in my diary was “Mommy was away from us.“ What is most striking to me today about the diary I kept seventy-five years ago is what I left out.”

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