The Rudashevski Diary: Jewish Quarterly 258

Yitskhok Rudashevski was taken to the Vilna Ghetto at age 13 and murdered at age 15. This is his diary, discovered in his final hiding place.

'Today I turned 15. I feel ... a regret, a kind of nagging feeling. I wish to take back the year that has passed and keep it for later, for my new life. The second thing that I feel today is strength and hope. Today I turned 15 and live very much for tomorrow.'

This issue of The Jewish Quarterly presents the diary of Yitskhok Rudashevski, a Jewish teena...