Diary Entries from Jewish people
during the war
Background
The website the two prose selections are taken from is called “Yad Vashem.” There are several interpretations of this Hebrew phrase on the internet, but the meaning intended by the website is taken from the Old Testament (Isaiah, chapter 56, verse 5), “And to them will I give in my house and within my walls a memorial and a name (a “yad vashem”)...that shall not be cut off,” and basically translates to a memorial to victims of the Holocaust. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center has been collecting documents related to the Holocaust for more than 50 years. The two documents we will be working with in this section of the Resource guide were collected as a part of this process. They are primary sources, written by people who actually experienced the Holocaust.
The website the two prose selections are taken from is called “Yad Vashem.” There are several interpretations of this Hebrew phrase on the internet, but the meaning intended by the website is taken from the Old Testament (Isaiah, chapter 56, verse 5), “And to them will I give in my house and within my walls a memorial and a name (a “yad vashem”)...that shall not be cut off,” and basically translates to a memorial to victims of the Holocaust. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center has been collecting documents related to the Holocaust for more than 50 years. The two documents we will be working with in this section of the Resource guide were collected as a part of this process. They are primary sources, written by people who actually experienced the Holocaust.