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Diary of Bergen-Belsen, 1944–1945

A resistance fighter’s “remarkable” memoir of her imprisonment at the infamous Nazi concentration camp (The New Yorker).

Hanna Lévy-Hass, a Yugoslavian Jew, emerged a defiant survivor of the Holocaust. Her observations shed new light on the lived experience of Nazi internment during World War II, and she stands alone as the only resistance fighter to report on her own experience inside the camps—doing so with unflinching clarity in dealing with the political and social divisions inside Bergen-Belsen.

In this volume, her insightful diary is accompanied by an introduction from her daughter, Amira Hass, an Israeli journalist renowned for her reporting from the West Bank and Gaza.

“A poignant testimonial . . . Hanna Lévy-Hass was clearly a quite extraordinary woman.”—Tony Judt, Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945

Hanna Lévy-Hass, Amira Hass

Born in Sarajevo, Hanna Levy-Hass was an activist in the Resistance to the German occupation of Yugoslavia. She was taken from Montenegro to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp by the Nazis in 1944. Her diary has been published in many languages. Amira Haas, the daughter of Hanna Levy-Haas, is an Israeli journalist who is best known for her columns in Ha'aretz. She is the author of Drinking the Sea at Gaza and the recipient of many awards for her writing.

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