A Theresienstadt survivor, Zuzana Justman, looks at the diary from her childhood and assesses everything as an adult. But the most touching part for me is the letter from someone else at the end.
My Terezin Diary
What is most striking to me today about the diary I kept in the camp, seventy-five years ago, is what I left out.
I regret that I will never be able to describe what I experienced and what I saw. I ask one thing of you: do believe that everything you will hear is true. Nothing that you will hear can compare with what I knew about and witnessed...
Tomorrow I will leave, separately from the rest of my family. After tomorrow you will never hear from me again. I will vanish into the endless nothingness to join those who had to pay for what they knew and witnessed, while for many years the whole world watched with folded arms. We are at war, we are the enemies, and we have to know how to die like soldiers. In the next forty-eight hours, my fate will be sealed, and my wife Gerta’s as well. All I ask of you is to take care of our father’s grave and, if you should find us, to bury us next to him.
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