Rutka Laskier

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Rutka Laskier (1939)
Diary page February 6, 1943
1 = return to the ghetto; 1a = forced labor; 2 = test; 3 = relocation

Rutka Laskier (born June 12, 1929 in Danzig , Free City of Danzig ; died 1943 in Auschwitz concentration camp ) grew up as a Jewish girl in Danzig and Będzin and, through her diary published in 2006 for 85 days, was found in the ghetto in Będzin in occupied Poland in spring 1943 known. According to surviving family members and contemporary witnesses, the young person was probably murdered by the German occupiers in the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp 45 km away after being deported from this ghetto . The diary deals with the time of stay in Będzin, the district town of the Powiat , which was added to the Greater German Reich in 1939 by the German occupation of Poland as the district of Bendsburg .

diary

Rutka Laskier was born in Danzig (now Gdańsk) in 1929. Her parents' house - Yaacov Laskier was a bank clerk in Gdansk and a partner in a flour mill in Będzin - offered bourgeois prosperity. After the National Socialists came to power in Danzig in 1933, the Free State was shaped by anti-Jewish politics. The family went to Poland, where the parents got married in 1925. Rutka had a little brother Heniuś, born in 1937, who was born in Będzin after moving.

In Będzin she made friends with Stanisława Sapińska, the daughter of the house owners, who kept the diary for over 60 years and then passed it on to half-sister Zahava Scherz (née Laskier), who was born in Israel in 1949.

In the diary, Rutka remembers a day on the soccer field in the stadium of the Jewish sports club Hakoah, when the Germans made a selection there : August 6, 1942. She escaped.

The forced relocation of the family in March to the closed ghetto in the Kamionka district, the “worst district” of Będzin, is the last known turning point in their lives. Further life can only be deduced from reports from contemporary witnesses . Her father, who survived his imprisonment in the concentration camp, reported on the separation from his family on the ramp in Birkenau.

Diary editions

German translation 2011
  • Pamiętnik Rutki Laskier . Polska Presse, Katowice, Poland, 2006. Editor: Stanisław Bubin. ISBN 83-89956-42-X . (Polish).
  • Rutka's Notebook: January-April 1943 . Foreword by Dr. Zahava Sherz; historical introduction by Bella Gutterman . Jerusalem: Yad Vashem Publications.
  • Pamiętnik Rutka Laskier. Magic SC, Będzin, Poland, 2008. Editor: Adam Szydłowski (pl)
  • "Rutka's diary - audio piece based on the notes of Rutka Laskier" by Steffen Moratz. Diary translation by Andreas Späth. Director: Gottfried von Eine . Production MDR 2010. First broadcast November 5, 2010 .
  • Rutka's diary: Notes from a Polish girl from the ghetto . Translated from the Polish by Friedrich Griese . With an introduction by Zahava (Laskier) Scherz and an afterword by Mirjam Pressler . Berlin: Structure, 2011 ISBN 978-3-351-04139-7 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Zahava Scherz , at DNB
  2. ↑ Rutka's Notebook , at Yad Vashem (English and Hebrew)
personal data
SURNAME Laskier, Rutka
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish Jewish girl, diary writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Danzig , Free City of Danzig
DATE OF DEATH 1943
Place of death uncertain: Birkenau concentration camp