Religieuze biografieën en memoiresThe Diary of a Young Girl , also known as The Diary of Anne Frank , is a book of the writings from the Dutch language diary kept by Anne Frank while she was in hiding for two years with her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. The family was apprehended in 1944, and Anne Frank died of typhus in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945. The diary was retrieved by Miep Gies, who gave it to Anne's father, Otto Frank, the family's only known survivor, just after the war was over. The diary has since been published in more than 60 languages.
Religieuze biografieën en memoiresThe book The Story of My Life. Various Events and Episodes of an Orphan by Pinkhes-Dov Goldenshteyn is the adventurous autobiography, in Yiddish, of a Lubavitcher Chassid, Pinchas-Dov Goldenshteyn, who lived and worked in Moldova, Czarist Russia, and eventually settled in Palestine. It was published in Petach Tikvah (1928-29). Goldenshteyn’s great-granddaughter, Cynthia Unterman from New York, asked the scholar Michoel Rotenfeld to translate it in English. An academic, annotated, scholarly editioned is planned for the future. The illustrations Mrs. Unterberg commissioned from renowned Jewish artist Shoshannah Brombacher are published separately in this pictorial. They show scenes of Jewish life in Eastern Europe in the nineteenth century and can be enjoyed with or without the original text. Shoshannah Brombacher is a Dutch artist who lived in Berlin, Jerusalem, and New York. She has a PHD in Jewish literature. After she discovered Chassidic stories about the Baal Shem Tov in her fat