Clara Kramer was a Polish Jewish teenager in Zolkiew, Poland, at the outbreak of the Second World War. Her family, as well as others, was taken in by their Volksdeutsch housekeeper and her husband. Eighteen people lived in a bunker dug out of Mrs. Becks' basement. Fifteen-year-old Clara kept a diary during the twenty terrifying months they were in hiding. There were approximately five thousand Jews in Zolkiew before the war. When the war ended, Clara and her parents were among the approximately sixty who survived. Her diary is now part of the permanent collection of the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C.
