Holocaust Diaries: An Intimate View into History Join Jakub Nowakowski, Director of the Galicia Jewish Museum in Kraków where the exhibit was first created and displayed, to hear about the creation and history of The Girl in the Diary: Searching for Rywka from the Łódź Ghetto. Schedule your adult or student group for a special tour today! And at its heart, it is the story of a journey in search of Rywka and her fate – a story still being written. It is filled with their pain and longing, their fear, their daily battles, their courage. The story presented in the exhibit is mainly that of women – the women who fought for survival in the Łódź Ghetto, in concentration camps. The historical and intimate artifacts displayed in the exhibit, including beads, thimbles, and toys, serve as witness to the personal dimensions of the Holocaust. These commentaries help us to understand the context of the times and events Rywka refers to in her diary. Selected passages are supplemented by expert commentary from historians, doctors, psychologists and rabbis.
Rywka’s diary, a moving memoir of life and adolescence in the Łódź Ghetto, is the starting point for this exhibition. An international research team was established – all them looking for answers and for Rywka Lipszyc. Anita Friedman began the task of trying to locate answers about the notebook and its writer.
More than 60 years after its discovery, the diary traveled to the United States to the Holocaust Center of Northern California where Dr. It was a diary written by the teenager Rywka Lipszyc in the Łódź Ghetto between October 1943 and April 1944 - the testament of a Jewish girl who lost her siblings and parents, but never lost hope despite moments of doubt. In 1945 a Soviet doctor found a school notebook in the liberated Auschwitz-Birkenau Camp. On the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz- Birkenau Camp, Jewish Museum is honored to exhibit The Girl in the Diary: Searching for Rywka from the Łódź Ghetto, on loan from the Galicia Museum in Kraków, Poland. “Oh, to write!… To be able to write, to make pen move on paper! I need to write.” -Rywka Lipszyc, Litzmannstadt Ghetto The Girl in the Diary: Searching for Rywka from the Łódź Ghetto
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