Elsa Binder, girl in the Holocaust: Fear crawls out from all four corners

When fear crawls out in the evenings from all four corners, when the winter storm raging outside tells you it is winter, and that it is difficult to live in the winter, when my soul trembles at the sight of distant fantasies, I shiver and say one word with every heartbeat, every pulse, every piece of my soul-- liberation.

  --From the diary of Elsa Binder, a young woman in the  Stanislawów ghetto (1942). Her diary was found in a ditch where the Jews of that city were massacred.

    --From a review of Salvaged Pages (2002), ed. Alexandra Zapruder (1969-), a collection of extracts from diaries of young people caught up in the Holocaust.