Rutka's Notebooks

Rutka’s Notebook: A Voice from the Holocaust (Time / Yad Vashem, April 28, 2008), is the diary of Rutka Laskier, a fourteen-year old Jewish girl who lived in Poland in 1943. Prior to her family’s forced relocation by the Nazis Rutka entrusted her notebook to her friend Stanislawa Sapenska, who kept it hidden for sixty years. The American edition of the diary, co-published by Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Authority, and Time Books, was presented at a book launch event hosted by the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City where the publishers talked about the meaning of the diary to the world. Zahava Sherz, the half-sister of Rutka Laskier, talked about how she became aware of her father’s previously unknown family and about the diary. She read a passage and responded to questions from members of the audience. Dasha Rittenberg, a contemporary of Rutka who was consulted about the book, spoke from the audience. close