diaries

The diary of a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl who died in a concentration camp during World War II.

The journal of a Jewish girl in her early teens describes both the joys and torments of daily life, as well as typical adolescent thoughts, throughout two years spent in hiding with her family during the Nazi occupation of Holland.

Hannah Senesh worked to save fellow Jews from her native Hungary during World War II, but was captured and executed by the Nazis at age twenty three. This collection contains her diary, poems, and letters as well as the memoir written by her mother and accounts by parachutists who accompanied her on her mission.

The true story of twelve-year-old Nadja Halilbegovich as she relates how she and her family survived the constant bombings, attacks, and lack of basic supplies during the siege of Sarajevo in the late 1990s.

Presents an English translation of the diary entries of nineteen-year-old Thura Al-Windawi, the oldest daughter in a middle-class Shia Muslim family living in Baghdad, in which she shares her thoughts, emotions, and experiences throughout the war in Iraq, from March 15 through June 2003.

The experiences of a French school boy, who lived through the German occupation of France from 1939 to 1945.

The experiences, based on her own account, of Mary Jemison who was captured by a Shawnee war party when she was twelve and subsequently rescued and adopted by the Seneca with whom she chose to remain the rest of her long life.

Throughout his year-long sojourn, Krasemann photographed and studied the area's unique flora and fauna and wrote about his impressions of the land and its inhabitants.

The diary of Theodore Roosevelt records his travels through Europe with his family during 1869 and 1870. Includes sidebars, activities, and a timeline related to this era.

The diary of a thirteen-year-old girl living in Sarajevo, begun just before her eleventh birthday when there was still peace in her homeland.