War diaries. Holocaust diaries.
1. The Netherlands:
Anne Frank, in hiding and focusing (for lack of other sensory stimulation) on her interior life, see www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/af/htmlsite/; and Etty Hillesum, a young woman in her 20's and the perspective of an unmarried adult. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etty_Hillesum; www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Etty_Hillesum/. See Netherlands Road Ways;
2. Bosnia:
Zlata Filipovic was 11 when her world began to fall apart. She wrote a journal from Sarajevo. More on Zlata at mv.com/Writers-Corner/EVENTS/zlata. She had moved from Bosnia, and was in Paris by 1995. This is a chat session, with schoolchildren. You can also look her up in Wikipedia, search for her name there. Her family survived.
3. Lebanon.
See article in the New York Times, by Tom Zeller, Jr., on July 24, 2006, re a girl who videotaped her escape down the stairs to a shelter during bombing. Her name is Galya Daube. Then there is Finkployd at BloggingBeirut.com.
4. The Czech Republic, then Czechoslovakia:
"The Diary of Petr Ginz 1841-1942," edited by his sister, Chava Pressburger, the diaries logging events in this 12-14 year-old's life in Prague, then he was sent to Theresienstadt, then killed at Auschwitz. See The Places of Petr Ginz; and Czech Republic Road Ways.
5. Poland
"Rutka's Notebook," 1943, Rutka Laskier from Bedzin, Poland. She kept a diary for several months, then was sent to Auschwitz where she died. www1.yadvashem.org/research_publications/temp_publications/temp_index_Rutkas_Notebook.html
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