The Rudashevski Diary

<h2><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Yitskhok Rudashevski was taken to the Vilna Ghetto at age 13 and murdered at age 15. This is his diary discovered in his final hiding place.</span></h2><p><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>'Today I turned 15. I feel ... a regret a kind of nagging feeling. I wish to take back the year that has passed and keep it for later for my new life. The second thing that I feel today is strength and hope. Today I turned 15 and live very much for tomorrow.'</em></p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>This issue of The Jewish Quarterly presents the diary of Yitskhok Rudashevski a Jewish teenager in the Vilna Ghetto. An only child Rudashevski was transferred to the ghetto at age 13 and used a small notebook to chronicle his experiences wonder hopes and regrets. The diary was later discovered in an attic that was the final hiding place for him and his parents.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>This remarkable translation of the diary from Yiddish provides a glimpse into the observations of a teenager whose belief in culture history and knowledge defied the cruelty that surrounded him all captured in his tender honest voice. It is a crucial document of youth innocence and a refusal to be silenced.</span></p><p><br></p>