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On her fifteenth birthday, as the German army tightens its grip on

Warsaw, Mary Berg begins writing her diary. She does not yet know

that by the time she has filled twelve small notebooks she will have

endured four years of Nazi terror and recorded in vivid detail some

of the most important events of the twentieth century.

From the siege of Warsaw to the final, brutal suppression of the

Ghetto Uprising, she documents the plight of the refugees, the life

of the nouveaux riches, the forced conscription, the deportations, and

the heroism of the resistance fighters who rose up against German

oppression. Rescued with her family through an allied prisoner

exchange, Mary smuggled out of Warsaw the diary she had begun

four years earlier. In doing so, she brought to light one of the most

incredible documents of the Second World War the uniquely

personal story of a life-loving girl s encounter with unparalleled

human suffering, and an extraordinary insight into one of the darkest

chapters of history.