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"The Girl in the Diary: Searching for Rywka from the Łódź Ghetto" will be on display from July 29 through Dec. 30 at the Holocaust Memorial Center Zekelman Family Campus in Farmington Hills, Mich. (Image courtesy of the Galicia Museum, Krakow Poland)
In 1945, a Soviet doctor found a school notebook in the liberated Auschwitz-Birkenau Camp. It was a diary written by Rywka Lipszyc, a teenager in the Łódź Ghetto, between October 1943 and April 1944. The contents were the testament of a Jewish girl who lost her siblings and parents, but never lost hope despite moments of doubt.
More than 60 years after its discovery, the diary traveled to the United States, where it was translated from Polish, supplemented with commentaries and published in book form.