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* [https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/hear-o-israel-save-us-renia-spiegel-diary-english-translation-holocaust-poland-180970536/ Excerpts from the Diaries of Renia Spiegel] @ Smithsonian Magazine | * [https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/hear-o-israel-save-us-renia-spiegel-diary-english-translation-holocaust-poland-180970536/ Excerpts from the Diaries of Renia Spiegel] @ Smithsonian Magazine | ||
=== George Beck: April 11, 1944 === | |||
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Today’s report from Deutsche Volksbeobechter “Odessa has fallen and now in Russian hands”. Other news says that Krim and Sebastopol are encircled. They’re doing marvellous and I can see the war being over this year if they keep it up. Still suffering with bad stomach awake all night. | |||
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—[[George Beck (nonfiction)|George Beck]],1st Battalion The Duke of Wellington's Regiment, prisoner of war (diary) | |||
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* [https://www.historyisfun.org/learn/learning-center/benjamin-gilbert/ Benjamin Gilbert] @ historyisfun.org | * [https://www.historyisfun.org/learn/learning-center/benjamin-gilbert/ Benjamin Gilbert] @ historyisfun.org | ||
* [https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/hear-o-israel-save-us-renia-spiegel-diary-english-translation-holocaust-poland-180970536/ Excerpts from the Diaries of Renia Spiegel] @ Smithsonian Magazine | * [https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/hear-o-israel-save-us-renia-spiegel-diary-english-translation-holocaust-poland-180970536/ Excerpts from the Diaries of Renia Spiegel] @ Smithsonian Magazine | ||
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War Diary entries for April 11
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Benjamin Gilbert: April 11, 1781
Our situation is peculiarly unhappy as the Troops that are with us have not drawn one half of their winter Cloths and received but one month pay for more than a year.
—Benjamin Gilbert, soldier (letter to his father and stepmother)
- Benjamin Gilbert @ historyisfun.org
Reina Spiegel: July 18, 1942
Days go by. They’re all the same, like drops of rain. Evenings are the most pleasant. We sit in the yard in front of the house, we talk, joke and—breathing in the fragrance of the garden—I manage to forget that I live in the ghetto, that I have so many worries, that I feel lonely and poor, that Z. is a stranger to me, that despite all my longing I cannot get closer to him.
Here, in the yard, doves coo. The moon’s crescent silently floats into the sky. I was on the verge of tears three times today. I blamed the living conditions, but love can flourish anywhere. And yet, shadows always flit on my path. Where do those shadows come from? My heart aches so badly.
—Renia Spiegel, civilian (diary)
- Excerpts from the Diaries of Renia Spiegel @ Smithsonian Magazine
George Beck: April 11, 1944
Today’s report from Deutsche Volksbeobechter “Odessa has fallen and now in Russian hands”. Other news says that Krim and Sebastopol are encircled. They’re doing marvellous and I can see the war being over this year if they keep it up. Still suffering with bad stomach awake all night.
—George Beck,1st Battalion The Duke of Wellington's Regiment, prisoner of war (diary)
In the News
Fiction cross-reference
Nonfiction cross-reference
- George Beck (nonfiction)
- Benjamin Gilbert (nonfiction)
- Reina Spiegel (nonfiction)
- War (nonfiction)
- War Diaries (nonfiction)
External links
- Benjamin Gilbert @ historyisfun.org
- Excerpts from the Diaries of Renia Spiegel @ Smithsonian Magazine
- http://www.pegasusarchive.org/pow/george_beck1.htm