A unique account of the violence and suffering at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. In November 1943, Renata Laqueur, a Jewish woman, was arrested in Amsterdam along with her husband, Paul Goldschmidt. In mid-March 1944, they were deported to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Here, two days after her arrival, Renata began keeping a diary. In December 1944, she stopped writing; she lacked the strength to continue. After her liberation from an evacuation transport on 23 April 1945, she returned to the Netherlands. There, she edited and expanded her notes, which were first published in Dutch in 1965. The diary is a valuable and unique historical document that reflects the suffering of millions of people. Renata Laqueur describes the experiences of violence and the gruelling living conditions in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in an unsentimental and unflinching manner. For this edition, Gerd Busse has produced a new translation of the diary. Saskia Goldschmidt, Renata Laqueur’s stepdaughter, has edited it, provided an introduction and supplemented it with photographs.

This book is included in DOAB.