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About the artifacts
Debora, whose last name is not known, fought in the Warsaw uprising in 1944. Earlier, she kept a diary of the brutality around her, including hearing her own mother distract Nazis and their collaborators from the underground shelter Debora and others were hiding in. Emerging from the shelter, Debora found the ghetto in flames and her mother nearby, shot to death by the Nazis. Debora was killed in the fighting, and her story would have been lost, too, had her diary not been recovered from the rubble by her friend, Lusia Schwarzwald.
Credits: Seared pages from “Debora’s Diary” and the newspaper and envelope in which Lusia Schwarzwald Hornstein wrapped it. USHMM, gift of the family of Lusia Hornstein.
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