To keep it from Russian forces, a writer hid his last manuscript under a cherry tree. Its rediscovery became part of a flowering of interest in Ukrainian literature.
Tag: Diaries
From Gaza, an Audio Diary of Despair
In a series of voice memos sent via WhatsApp, Tasneem Ismael Ahel, 19, described the war unfolding around her in Gaza City.
Ukrainians Turn to Diaries for Solace, and to Share Life in Wartime
Writers have long used diaries to make sense of life. Now, diaries can be shared in real time, helping shape public perception of events as they unfold — including war.
Hannah Pick-Goslar, a Presence in Anne Frank’s Diary, Dies at 93
The two young women knew each other from kindergarten until their final encounter, on opposite sides of a barbed-wire fence in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
‘Right Now Feels So Long and Without Any End in Sight’
More than 700 people have been keeping digital diaries as part of Pandemic Journaling Project. It may be the most complete record of our shifting moods in this isolating year.
A Secret Diary Chronicled the ‘Satanic World’ That Was Dachau
For two years, a prisoner in the German concentration camp kept a journal that would later be used to convict those who had persecuted him and killed his fellow prisoners.
She Kept a Diary of China’s Coronavirus Epidemic. Now She Faces a Political Storm.
“If authors have any responsibilities in the face of disaster, the greatest of them is to bear witness.” Here are excerpts from the author Fang Fang’s controversial chronicle of life and death in Wuhan.
The Quarantine Diaries
Around the world, the history of our present moment is taking shape in journal entries and drawings.
Frank Giles, 100, Editor Snared in ‘Hitler Diaries’ Hoax, Is Dead
At The Sunday Times of London, he learned at the last minute that the diaries were fake, but the paper’s owner, Rupert Murdoch, ordered them published.
A Slain Jewish Girl’s Diary of Life Under the Soviets and the Nazis
Described as a counterpart to Anne Frank’s diary, a journal written by Renia Spiegel, a Jewish girl who lived in Poland during World War II, is being published in English.