Monday, June 18, 2007


THE SUNDAY TIMES CULTURE SUPPLEMENT June 17, 2007

Monday morning in Porto and the International Herald Tribune was late in arriving so instead I bought the Sunday Times (NZ$10) which proved to be a good decision as the 96 page (!) Culture section was full of fascinating stuff from the wider arts world including 19 book reviews.

But the story that really caught my attention was headed The New Anne Frank.

A journal written by a young Holocaust victim, Rutka Laskier, is being hailed as the new Anne Frank's diary. The Times publishes excerpts from the diary which has been hidden for 62 years, and Rutka Laskier's half sister, Zahava Scherz, reveals how she disovered it.

The diary, Rutka's Notebook , has been published in English by Yad Vashem Publications and more information is available from http://www.yadvashem.org/
Pic from the Sunday Times.

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