War Diaries (April 24) (nonfiction)
War Diary quotations for April 24
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Reina Spiegel: April 24, 1940
Renia Spiegel began her diary in January 1939 at the age of 15.
Terrible things have been happening. There were unexpected nighttime raids that lasted three days. People were rounded up and sent somewhere deep inside Russia. So many acquaintances of ours were taken away. There was terrible screaming at school. Girls were crying. They say 50 people were packed into one cargo train car. You could only stand or lie on bunks. Everybody was singing “Poland has not yet perished.”
About that Holender boy I mentioned: I fell in love, I chased him like a madwoman, but he was interested in some girl named Basia. Despite that, I still like him, probably more than any other boy I know. Sometimes I feel this powerful, overwhelming need...maybe it’s just my temperament. I should get married early so I can withstand it.
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- Excerpts from the Diaries of Renia Spiegel @ Smithsonian Magazine