War Diaries (July 5) (nonfiction)
War Diary quotations for July 5
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Reina Spiegel: July 5, 1942
Renia Spiegel began her diary in January 1939 at the age of 15.
We feared it and then it finally happened. The ghetto. The notices went out today. Supposedly, they’re planning to deport half the people. Great Lord God, have mercy. My thoughts are so dark, it’s a sin to even think them.
I saw a happy-looking couple today. They’d been on an outing; they were on their way back, amused and happy. Zygus, my darling, when will we go on an outing like theirs? I love you as much as she loves him. I would look at you the same way. But she’s so much happier, that’s the only thing I know. Or perhaps—oh, Holy God, you are full of mercy—our children will say one day, “Our mother and father lived in the ghetto.” Oh, I strongly believe it.
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- Excerpts from the Diaries of Renia Spiegel @ Smithsonian Magazine