Marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Elizabeth Bellak, with her daughter Alexandra, presents the journal of her sister, Renia Spiegel, who was a Jewish teenager in southeastern Poland when she began writing her diary, months before the advent of World War II. By the time she was executed by Nazi soldiers, Spiegel had chronicled life under a totalitarian regime. Her journal, hidden in a safe deposit box in New York City for decades, has been described as a counterpart to Anne Frank's diary, a valuable historical document and a poignant coming-of-age story.
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