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War Diary quotations for September 6
Quotations
Reina Spiegel: August 25, 1939
Renia Spiegel began her diary in January 1939 at the age of 15.
War has broken out! Since last week, Poland has been fighting with Germany. England and France also declared war on Hitler and surrounded him on three sides. But he isn’t sitting idly. Enemy planes keep flying over Przemysl, and every now and then there’s an air raid siren. But, thank God, no bombs have fallen on our city so far. Other cities like Krakow, Lwow, Czestochowa and Warsaw have been partially destroyed.
But we’re all fighting, from young girls to soldiers. I’ve been taking part in female military training—digging air raid trenches, sewing gas masks. I’ve been serving as a runner. I have shifts serving tea to the soldiers. I walk around and collect food for the soldiers. In a word, I’m fighting alongside the rest of the Polish nation. I’m fighting and I’ll win!
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Fiction cross-reference
Nonfiction cross-reference
External links
- Excerpts from the Diaries of Renia Spiegl @ Smithsonian Magazine