Salvaged Pages
Young Writers' Diaries of the Holocaust
This stirring collection of diaries written by young people, aged twelve to twenty-two years, during the Holocaust has been fully revised and updated. Some of the writers were refugees, others were in hiding or passing as non-Jews, some were imprisoned in ghettos, and nearly all perished before liberation. This seminal National Jewish Book Award winner preserves the impressions, emotions, and eyewitness reportage of young people whose accounts of daily events and often unexpected thoughts, ideas, and feelings serve to deepen and complicate our understanding of life during the Holocaust. The second paperback edition includes a new preface by Alexandra Zapruder examining the book's history and impact. Simultaneously, an enhanced e-book incorporates a wealth of new content in a variety of media, including photographs of the writers and their families, images of the original diaries, artwork made by the writers, historical documents, glossary terms, maps, survivor testimony (some available for the first time), and video of the author teaching key passages. In addition, an in-depth, interdisciplinary curriculum in history, literature, and writing developed by the author and a team of teachers, working in cooperation with the educational organization Facing History and Ourselves, is now available to support use of the book in middle- and high-school classrooms.
About the Author
Alexandra Zapruder was on the founding staff of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and was writer and co-producer of I'm Still Here, an award-winning documentary for young people based on Salvaged Pages.
Reviews
"These extraordinary diaries will resonate in the reader's broken heart for many days and many nights" – Elie Wiesel
"Zapruder... has done a great service to history and the future. Her book deserves to become a standard in Holocaust studies classes... These writings will certainly impress themselves on the memories of all readers" – Publishers Weekly
"'Salvaged Pages' offers important perspectives for today's Holocaust education students. The voices of young adults during the Holocaust resonate in a way that can't be replicated by other resources" – Jennifer L. Goss, Robert E. Lee High School
"'Salvaged Pages' shares the despair, frustrations, hopes, and loves of young adults who struggle mightily with the impact of the hatred and indifference of their neighbors. My students are enthralled" – Lynne Ravas, Lower Dauphin Middle School
"'Salvaged Pages' is a window into the private world of young diarists existing under Nazi occupation. Readers cannot help but respond to the humanity of writers in a world whose deprivations we can only begin to comprehend through their own words" – Elaine Culbertson, Director, Holocaust and Jewish Resistance Teachers' Program
"A searing collection of Jewish youngsters' private Holocaust diaries, 'Salvaged Pages' shines a bright light on their daily lives and their inner lives. Zapruder offers us the opportunity follow these child and adolescent writers as they endured and responded to an ever harsher Nazi regime. 'Salvaged Pages' gives us a glimpse, too, of the unfulfilled potential lost with the murder of a generation. A key text for teachers and students alike, Salvaged Pages enriches our understanding of how life was lived and lives were destroyed, day by day, year after year" – Deborah Dwork, Director, Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark University
