PRAISE FOR MARY BERG'S DIARY

‘The Diary of Mary Berg is one of the most influential eyewitness testimonies to emerge from the Warsaw ghetto. Berg had a sharp eye and the courage to record what she saw, even if it was disturbing. With dispassionate precision she notes the creativity and the corruption, the starving refugees dying on the streets and the nouveau riches smugglers living it up in the cafes and nightclubs. She captures the barbarity of the round-ups and the desperate struggle to survive. Yet this is also the story of a sensitive young women growing to maturity, a tale of friendships and romance set against a background of almost unbearable horror. Mary was driven by the need to bear witness and tell the world what happened in the Warsaw ghetto: she succeeded triumphantly with a diary that is both a shattering historical record and a heart-rending memorial.’
David Cesarani, Research Professor in History, University of London

‘I recommend the Diary to anyone seeking a genuine insight into “life” in Nazi occupied Poland. An impressive and touching tale of survival.’
Rabbi Barry Marcus

‘Without qualification, this reviewer recommends Mary Berg’s Diary to everybody‘
New York Times

‘One of the most heart-breaking documents that has yet come out of the war… a brave and inspiring book’
The New Yorker

‘Honest, unadorned, unexaggerated’
Chicago Tribune

‘A moving record of terrorism’
Kirkus Reviews

‘One of the most important documents in the Age of Hitler’
San Francisco Chronicle