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Introduction:

In this booklet we bring an amazing story of a Holocaust-period diary

that was discovered only in 2009, 67 years after it was written.

This is the diary of Rivka Lifshitz, a 14-year-old Jewish girl who lost

both her parents and two younger brothers in the horrors of the

Holocaust.

In a moving ceremony, Dr. Anita Friedman, representative of the

Holocaust Museum in San Francisco, arrived in Israel and handed the

diary to Rivka's two surviving cousins.

One of the cousins, Esther, who was several years older than Rivka,

raised her during that terrible time.

Together, the three girls moved from the ghetto to the Auschwitz

concentration camp and, after surviving the death march, arrived

exhausted in Bergen-Belsen.

When the Allies liberated the camp, Rebecca was very ill and was

transferred to a hospital. It was the last time they saw her alive ...

Despite all the horrors she experienced, Rivka tried to remain

optimistic and not let the enemy subdue her spirit.

Rivka wrote in her diary:

"I'm a Jew, I'm poor in the ghetto, I do not know what will happen

to me tomorrow, and yet I laugh at the whole world, because I have

something very big to lean on - faith."

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