BBC One - The Secret Diary of the Holocaust (original) (raw)
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Documentary telling the tale of a 14-year-old Polish girl, Rutka Laskier, who was murdered at Auschwitz in 1943, whose diary was found under the floorboards of her home in 2005.
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Documentary telling the extraordinary tale of a 14-year-old Polish girl, Rutka Laskier, who was murdered at Auschwitz in 1943.
In 2005, the school notebook in which Rutka recorded her last months in the ghetto of Bedzin was made public, six decades after she hid it under the floorboards of her home there. Rutka was immediately dubbed the 'Polish Anne Frank'.
In her diary, Rutka wrote about her life in the ghetto in 1943, detailing not just the Nazi atrocities, physical hardship and hunger, but also how she was developing as a young woman. She also tells how she made a daring escape from one of the early 'aktions', Nazi round-ups of Jews for transportation.
The documentary will unravel Rutka's story through the eyes of her half-sister, Israeli academic Zahava Scherz, on a journey to Poland in search of the sister she never knew.
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Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Participant | Zahava Scherz |
| Participant | Menachem Lior |
| Participant | Adam Szydlowski |
| Participant | Stanislawa Sapinska |
| Participant | Paulina 'Linka' Kleinlerer |
| Director | Alexander Marengo |
| Producer | Alexander Marengo |