![]() The Wattenbergs held a privileged position within this confined community because Miriam's mother was a US citizen. The Wattenberg family fled to Warsaw, where in November 1940, Miriam, with her parents and younger sister, had to live in the Warsaw ghetto. She began a wartime diary in October 1939, shortly after Poland surrendered to German forces. ![]() Wattenberg was born in Lódz on October 10, 1924. The diary of Miriam Wattenberg (“Mary Berg”) was one of the first children's journals which revealed to a wider public the horrors of the Holocaust. In these accounts, the young writers documented their experiences, confided their feelings, and reflected on the trauma they endured during these nightmare years. Of the millions of children who suffered persecution at the hands of the Nazis and their Axis partners, only a small number wrote diaries and journals that have survived. ![]() About 1.5 million of the victims were children. ![]() When World War II ended in 1945, six million European Jews were dead, killed in the Holocaust. ![]()
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