War Diaries (August 25) (nonfiction)

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Reina Spiegel: August 25, 1939

My summer vacation is almost over. I went to see my aunt in the countryside, I went to Warsaw, I saw Mamma and now I’m back. But you don’t know about any of that. You were lying here, left on your own.

You don’t even know that the Russians have signed a treaty with the Germans. You don’t know that people are stockpiling food, that everybody’s on the alert, waiting for war. When I was saying goodbye to Mamma, I hugged her hard. I wanted to tell her everything with that silent hug. I wanted to take her soul and leave her my own, because—when?

—Renia Spiegel began her diary in January 1939 at the age of 15.

• Excerpts from the Diaries of Renia Spiegel @ Smithsonian Magazine

Fiction cross-reference

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• Gnomon Chronicles

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Reina Spiegel (nonfiction)
• War (nonfiction)
• War Diaries (nonfiction)

External links

• Excerpts from the Diaries of Renia Spiegel @ Smithsonian Magazine