Summary of the book "Survivor. Diary of a girl from the Warsaw ghetto" Wattenberg M.: The population of the Warsaw ghetto was half a million people, of whom only a few were able to survive. The author of this book became one of the few prisoners who managed to survive the Holocaust. Along with the diary of Anne Frank, this is one of the most important testimonies about the Second World War, a deeply personal story of a young girl who loves life and is faced with extreme human suffering. It was the diary of Miriam Wattenberg (1924-2013) published in the United States before the end of the war, in February 1945, that opened the eyes of the whole world to the horrors of the Holocaust."It was a bloody Wednesday in the ghetto today. Deportations and street pogroms began. At dawn, patrols of Ukrainians and Lithuanians, led by the Germans, surrounded the ghetto. Anyone who approached the gate or showed himself in the window was shot on the spot. Ukrainians and Lithuanians showed great zeal in the killings. These are tall young animals of seventeen or twenty years old, specially trained for this bloody work by German instructors..." Read more…