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Diarists who wrote diaries concerning the Holocaust (1941-1945). English translations of some of these diaries are commercially available; for example, Anne Frank's, Eva Heyman's, and Janusz Korczak's.

  • Janina Altman
  • Hinde Bergner (1870–1942): Bergner, Hinde (2005). Cammy, Justin Daniel (ed.). On Long Winter Nights: Memoirs of a Jewish Family in a Galician Township, 1870–1900. Harvard University Center for Jewish Studies. ISBN 978-0-674-01970-6.
  • Mary Berg
  • Hélène Berr (1921–1945): Berr, Hélène (2008). The Journal of Hélène Berr. Translated by Bell, David. MacLehose Press. ISBN 978-1-906694-19-7.
  • Jacques Bielinski (1930–1942): Bielinski, Jacques (1992). Journal 1940–1942: Un journaliste juif à Paris sous l'Occupation (in French). Éditions du Cerf.
  • Eliszewa Binder
  • Miriam Chaszczewacki (1924–1942): Chaszczewacki, Miriam. Diary.
  • Willy Cohn
  • Abraham Cytryn (1927–1944): Cytryn, Abraham (2005). Newman, Su; Naor, Chaya (eds.). Youth Writing Behind the Walls: Avraham Cytryn's Lodz Notebooks. Yad Vashem Publications. ISBN 978-0-9764425-1-6.
  • Adam Czerniaków (1880–1942): Czerniaków, Adam (1999). Hilberg, Raul; Staron, Stanisław; Kermisz, Josef (eds.). The Warsaw Diary of Adam Czerniakow: Prelude to Doom. Translated by Staron, Stanisław. Ivan R. Dee. ISBN 978-1-56663-230-0.
  • Arnold Daghani
  • Hilda Dajč
  • Helga Deen (1925–1943): Deen, Helga. Dit is om nooit meer te vergeten: Dagboek en brieven van Helga Deen, 1943 (in Dutch).
  • Erich Dublon
  • Julius Feldman (1923–1943): Feldman, Julius (2002). The Krakow Diary of Julius Feldman. Translated by Brand, William. Quill Press. ISBN 978-0-9536280-8-7.
  • Sarah Fishkin (1924–1942): Fishkin, Sarah (2005). Fishkin, Jacob (ed.). Heaven and Earth: The Diary of Sarah Fishkin. YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. ISBN 978-1-4208-7156-2.
  • Moshe Flinker (1926–1944): Flinker, Moshe (1971). Young Moshe's Diary: The Spiritual Torment of a Jewish Boy in Nazi Europe. Yad Vashem Publications.
  • Anne Frank (1929–1945): Frank, Anne. The Diary of a Young Girl. Doubleday. ISBN 978-0-385-47378-1.
  • Petr Ginz (1928–1944): Ginz, Petr (2007). Pressburger, Chava (ed.). The Diary of Petr Ginz, 1941–1942. Translated by Lappin, Elena. Atlantic Monthly Press. ISBN 978-0-87113-966-5.
  • Zalman Gradowski
  • Éva Heyman (1931–1944): Heyman, Éva (1988). Marton, Judah (ed.). The Diary of Éva Heyman. Translated by Kohn, Moshe M. Shapolsky Publishers. ISBN 978-0-933503-89-2.
  • Etty Hillesum (1914–1943): Hillesum, Etty (1996). An Interrupted Life: The Diaries, 1941–1943; and Letters from Westerbork. Translated by Pomerans, Arnold J. Picador. ISBN 978-0-8050-5087-5.
  • David Kahane
  • Zelig Kalmanovich
  • Chaim Aron Kaplan (1880–1942): Kaplan, Chaim Aron (1999). Katsh, Abraham I. (ed.). Scroll of Agony: The Warsaw Diary of Chaim A. Kaplan. Translated by Katsh, Abraham I. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-21293-1.
  • Elsa Katz (d. 1944): Katz, Elsa. A Theresienstadt Diary: Letters to Veruska. Translated by Schiff, Vera.
  • Victor Klemperer
  • Aryeh Klonicki (1906–1943): Klonicki, Aryeh (1973). The Diary of Adam's Father: The Diary of Aryeh Klonicki (Klonymus) and His Wife Malwina, with Letters Concerning the Fate of Their Child Adam. Translated by Tomaschoff, Avner. Ghetto Fighters' House and Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House.
  • Věra Kohnová (1929–1942): Kohnová, Věra. The Diary.
  • David Koker (1921–1945): Koker, David (2012). van Pelt, Robert Jan (ed.). At the Edge of the Abyss: A Concentration Camp Diary, 1943–1944. Translated by Horn, Michiel; Irons, John. Northwestern University Press. ISBN 978-0-8101-2636-7.
  • Janusz Korczak (1878–1942): Korczak, Janusz (2003). Ghetto Diary. Yale University Press.
  • Herman Kruk (1897–1944): Kruk, Herman (2002). Harshav, Benjamin (ed.). The Last Days of the Jerusalem of Lithuania: Chronicles from the Vilna Ghetto and the Camps, 1939–1944. Translated by Harshav, Barbara. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-04494-2.
  • Leib Langfus
  • Rutka Laskier (1929–1943): Laskier, Rutka (2007). Zaidman-Mauer, Daniella (ed.). Rutka's Notebook: January–April 1943. Yad Vashem. ISBN 978-0-9764425-7-8.
  • Abraham Lewin (1893–1943): Lewin, Abraham (1988). Polonsky, Antony (ed.). A Cup of Tears: A Diary of the Warsaw Ghetto. Blackwell. ISBN 978-0-631-16215-5.
  • Ruthka Lieblich (1926–1942?): Lieblich, Ruthka. Eibeshitz, Jehoshua; Eibeshitz, Anna (eds.). Ruthka: A Diary of War. Holocaust Library. ISBN 978-0-932351-43-2.
  • Rywka Lipszyc (1929–1945): Lipszyc, Rywka (2014). Zapruder, Alexandra (ed.). The Diary of Rywka Lipszyc. Jewish Family and Children's Services Holocaust Center.
  • Jacques Lusseyran (1924–1971): Lusseyran, Jacques (2014). And There Was Light: The Extraordinary Memoir of a Blind Hero of the French Resistance in World War II. Translated by Cameron, Elizabeth R. New World Library. ISBN 978-1-60868-269-0.
  • Ruth Maier (1920–1942): Maier, Ruth (2009). Vold, Jan Erik (ed.). Ruth Maier's Diary: A Young Girl's Life Under Nazism. Translated by Bulloch, Jamie. Harvill Secker. ISBN 978-1-84655-214-4.
  • Philip Mechanicus (1889–1944): Mechanicus, Philip (1967). Year of Fear: A Jewish Prisoner Waits for Auschwitz. Hawthorn Books.
  • Séndi Miller
  • Irène Némirovsky (1903–1942): Némirovsky, Irène (2006). Suite Française. Translated by Smith, Sandra. Chatto & Windus. ISBN 978-0-7011-7896-1. {{cite book}}: Check |isbn= value: checksum (help); Némirovsky, Irène. Fire in the Blood. Translated by Smith, Sandra. Chatto & Windus.; Némirovsky, Irène. All Our Worldly Goods. Translated by Smith, Sandra. Chatto & Windus.; Némirovsky, Irène. The Wine of Solitude. Translated by Smith, Sandra. Chatto & Windus.
  • Ana Novac
  • Calel Perechodnik (1916–1944): Perechodnik, Calel (1996). Am I a Murderer?: Testament of a Jewish Ghetto Policeman. Translated by Fox, Frank. Westview Press. ISBN 978-0-8133-2702-0.
  • Sam Pivnik
  • Egon Redlich (1916–1944): Redlich, Egon (1999). Friedman, Saul S. (ed.). The Terezin Diary of Gonda Redlich. Translated by Kutler, Laurence. University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 978-0-8131-0960-2.
  • Magda Riederman Schloss (1920–2015): Schloss, Magda Riederman. We Were Strangers: The Story of Magda Preiss.
  • Oskar Rosenfeld (1884–1944): Rosenfeld, Oskar (2002). Loewy, Hanno (ed.). In the Beginning Was the Ghetto: Notebooks from Lodz. Northwestern University Press. ISBN 978-0-8101-1488-3.
  • Dawid Rubinowicz (1927–1942): Rubinowicz, Dawid (1982). The Diary of Dawid Rubinowicz. Translated by Bowman, Derek. Creative Options Publishing. ISBN 978-0-938106-03-6.
  • Yitskhok Rudashevski (1927–1943): Rudashevski, Yitskhok (1973). The Diary of the Vilna Ghetto: June 1941–April 1943. Translated by Matenko, Percy. Ghetto Fighters' House. ISBN 978-0-89604-076-2.
  • Mihail Sebastian
  • Dawid Sierakowiak (1924–1943): Sierakowiak, Dawid (1998). Adelson, Alan (ed.). The Diary of Dawid Sierakowiak: Five Notebooks from the Lodz Ghetto. Translated by Turowski, Kamil. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-512285-5.
  • Philip Slier (1923–1943): Slier, Philip (2008). Slier, Deborah (ed.). Hidden Letters. Star Bright Books. ISBN 978-1-887734-88-2.
  • Renia Spiegel (1924–1942): Spiegel, Renia (2019). Renia's Diary: A Holocaust Journal. St. Martin's Press. ISBN 978-1-250-24402-4.
  • Jerzy Feliks Urman (1932–1943): Urman, Jerzy Feliks. Rudolf, Anthony (ed.). I'm Not Even a Grownup: The Diary of Jerzy Feliks Urman. Shearsman Books.
  • Hilde Verdoner-Sluizer (1909–1944): Verdoner-Sluizer, Hilde (1990). Verdoner, Yoka; Verdoner Kan, Francisca (eds.). Signs of Life: The Letters of Hilde Verdoner-Sluizer from Nazi Transit Camp Westerbork, 1942–1944. Acropolis Books. ISBN 978-0-87491-955-4.
  • Béla Weichherz (1892–1942): Weichherz, Béla (2008). Magilow, Daniel H. (ed.). In Her Father's Eyes: A Childhood Extinguished by the Holocaust. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 978-0-8135-4376-5.
  • Chaim Yitzchok Wolgelernter (1911–1944): Wolgelernter, Chaim Yitzchok (2015). The Unfinished Diary: A Chronicle of Tears. Israel Bookshop Publications. ISBN 978-1-60091-065-4.
  • Shalom Yoran
  • Gertrude Zeisler (1889–1942): Zeisler, Gertrude. I Did Not Survive: Letters from the Kielce Ghetto.

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