The Rudashevski Diary

'Today I turned fifteen and live very much for tomorrow. I do not feel two ways about it. I see before me sun and sun and sun . . . '

Yitskhok Rudashevski was transferred to the Vilna Ghetto when he was thirteen. For nearly two years he used a small notebook to chronicle his hope, his despair and his experience of daily ghetto life. His diary was later discovered in an attic that was the final hiding place for him and his parents. This remarkable translation from Yiddish by Solon Beinfeld r...