The Secret Diary of the Holocaust

The Secret Diary Of The Holocaust tells the extraordinary tale of a 14yearold Polish girl Rutka Laskier who was murdered at Auschwitz in 1943 In 2005 the school notebook in which Rutka recorded her last months in the ghetto of Bedzin was made public six decades after she hid it under the floorboards of her home there Rutka was immediately dubbed the Polish Anne Frank In her diary Rutka wrote about her life in the ghetto in 1943 detailing not just the Nazi atrocities physical hardship and hunger but also how she was developing as a young woman She also tells how she made a daring escape from one of the early aktions Nazi roundups of Jews for transportation The documentary will unravel Rutkas story through the eyes of her halfsister Israeli academic Zahava Scherz on a journey to Poland in search of the sister she never knew