This is a list of

Holocaust victims Holocaust victims were people targeted by the government of Nazi Germany based on their ethnicity, religion, political beliefs, or sexual orientation. The institutionalized practice by the Nazis of singling out and persecuting people resulted ...

whose writings were published posthumously.

Published in English or translated into English

*Hinde Bergner (1870–1942): ''On Long Winter Nights: Memoirs of a Jewish Family in a Galician Township, 1870–1900'' *

Hélène Berr Hélène Berr (27 March 1921 – 10 April 1945) was a French woman of Jewish ancestry and faith, who documented her life in a diary during the time of Nazi occupation of France. In France she is considered to be a "French Anne Frank". Life ...

(1921–1945): ''The Journal of Hélène Berr'' *

Miriam Chaszczewacki Miriam Chaszczewacki or Miriam Chaszczewacka (1924–1942) was a 15-year-old Jewish girl and Holocaust victim who in 1939 began writing a personal diary about her life in the Radomsko ghetto which ended a few days before her death in 1942. Disco ...

(1924–1942): ''Diary'' *Abraham Cytryn (1927–1944): ''Youth Writing Behind the Walls: Notebooks From the Lodz Ghetto'' *

Adam Czerniaków Adam Czerniaków (30 November 1880 – 23 July 1942) was a Polish engineer and senator who was head of the Warsaw Ghetto Jewish Council (''Judenrat'') during World War II. He committed suicide on 23 July 1942 by swallowing a cyanide pill, a day a ...

(1880–1942): ''The Warsaw Diary of Adam Czerniakow: Prelude to Doom'' * Julius Feldman (1923–1943): ''The Krakow Diary of Julius Feldman'' * Sarah Fishkin (1924–1942?): ''Heaven and Earth: the Diary of Sarah Fishkin'' *

Moshe Flinker Moshe Ze'ev Flinker (Maurice Wolf Flinker) was a Jewish youth born in The Hague on October 9, 1926 and killed in Bergen Belsen by the Nazi Germany, Nazi regime in 1944. He was the son of Eliezer Noah Flinker of Poland, who had migrated to the Neth ...

(1926–1944): ''Young Moshe’s Diary: The Spiritual Torment of a Jewish Boy in Nazi Europe'' *

Anne Frank Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank (, ; 12 June 1929 – )Research by The Anne Frank House in 2015 revealed that Frank may have died in February 1945 rather than in March, as Dutch authorities had long assumed"New research sheds new light on Anne Fra ...

(1929–1945): ''

The Diary of a Young Girl ''The Diary of a Young Girl'', also known as ''The Diary of Anne Frank'', is a book of the writings from the Dutch-language diary kept by Anne Frank while she was in hiding for two years with her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherl ...

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Petr Ginz Petr Ginz (1 February 1928 – 28 September 1944) was a Czechoslovak boy of partial Jewish background who was deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp (known as Terezín, in Czech) during the Holocaust. He was murdered at the age of si ...

(1928–1944): ''The Diary of Petr Ginz'' * Éva Heyman (1931–1944): ''The Diary of Éva Heyman'' *

Etty Hillesum Esther (Etty) Hillesum (15 January 1914 – 30 November 1943) was the Dutch author of confessional letters and diaries which describe both her religious awakening and the persecutions of Jewish people in Amsterdam during the German occupation. I ...

(1914–1943): ''An Interrupted Life: the Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943'' * Chaim Aron Kaplan (1880–1942): ''Scroll of Agony: The Warsaw Diary of Chaim A. Kaplan'' * Elsa Katz (d. 1944): ''A Theresienstadt Diary: Letters to Veruska'' * Aryeh Klonicki (1906–1943): ''The Diary of Adam's Father'' * Věra Kohnová (1929–1942): ''The Diary'' * David Koker (1921-1945): ''At the Edge of the Abyss: A Concentration Camp Diary, 1943-1944'' *

Janusz Korczak Janusz Korczak, the pen name of Henryk Goldszmit (22 July 1878 or 1879 – 7 August 1942), was a Polish Jewish educator, children's author and pedagogue known as ''Pan Doktor'' ("Mr. Doctor") or ''Stary Doktor'' ("Old Doctor"). After spending ma ...

(1878–1942): ''Ghetto Diary'' * Herman Kruk (1897–1944): '' The Last Days of the Jerusalem of Lithuania: Chronicles from the Vilna Ghetto and the Camps 1939-1944'' *

Rutka Laskier Rut "Rutka" Laskier (12 June 1929 – December 1943) was a Jewish Polish diarist who is best known for her 1943 diary chronicling the three months of her life during the Holocaust in Poland. She was murdered at Auschwitz concentration camp in 19 ...

(1929–1943): ''Rutka's Notebook'' * Abraham Lewin (1893–1943): ''A Cup of Tears: A Diary of the Warsaw Ghetto'' * Ruthka Lieblich (1926–1942?): ''Ruthka: a Diary of War'' *

Rywka Lipszyc Rywka Bajla Lipszyc (ʁivka lipʃitz) (15 September 1929 – 1945?) was a Polish-Jewish teenage girl who wrote a personal diary while in the Łódź Ghetto during the Holocaust in Poland. She survived deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentr ...

(1929–1945): ''The Diary of Rywka Lipszyc'' *

Jacques Lusseyran Jacques Lusseyran (19 September 1924 – 27 July 1971) was a French author and political activist. Blinded at the age of 7, at 17 Lusseyran became a leader in the French resistance against Nazi Germany's occupation of France in 1941. He was e ...

(1924–1971): ''And There Was Light: autobiography of Jacques Lusseyran, blind hero of the French Resistance'' *

Ruth Maier Ruth Maier (10 November 1920 in Vienna, Austria – 1 December 1942 in Auschwitz, Poland) was an Austrian woman whose diaries describing her experiences of the Holocaust in Austria and Norway were published in 2007; reviews described her as "Nor ...

(1920–1942): ''Ruth Maier's Diary: A Young Girl's Life Under Nazism'' * Philip Mechanicus (1889–1944): ''Year of Fear: a Jewish Prisoner Waits for Auschwitz'' (also titled ''In Dépôt'' and ''Waiting for Death''). *

Irène Némirovsky Irène Némirovsky (; 11 February 1903 – 17 August 1942) was a novelist of Russian Jewish origin who was born in Kyiv, the Russian Empire. She lived more than half her life in France, and wrote in French, but was denied French citizenship. Arr ...

(1903–1942): '' Suite Française''; ''Fire in the Blood''; ''All Our Worldly Goods''; ''The Wine of Solitude'' * Egon Redlich (1916–1944): ''The Terezin Diary of Gonda Redlich'' *

Oskar Rosenfeld Oskar Rosenfeld (13 May 1884 – August 1944) was an Austrian-Jewish writer killed at Auschwitz concentration camp. Biography Early life and education Oskar Rosenfeld was born on 13 May 1884 in Koryčany, Moravia to Jeanette Rosenfeld (Jellin ...

(1884–1944): ''In the Beginning Was the Ghetto: Notebooks from Lodz'' * Dawid Rubinowicz (1927–1942): ''The Diary of Dawid Rubinowicz'' *

Yitskhok Rudashevski Yitskhok Rudashevski (10 December 1927, Vilnius – 1 October 1943) was a young Jewish teenager who lived in the Vilna Ghetto in Lithuania during the 1940s. He wrote a diary from June 1941 to April 1943 which detailed his life and struggles living ...

(1927–1943): ''Diary of the Vilna Ghetto'' *Magda Riederman Schloss (1920–2015): ''We Were Strangers: The Story of Magda Preiss'' * Dawid Sierakowiak (1924–1943): ''The Diary of Dawid Sierakowiak: Five Notebooks from the Lodz Ghetto'' *

Philip Slier Philip "Flip" Slier (4 December 1923 – 9 April 1943) was a Dutch typesetter of Jewish origin who lived in Amsterdam during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II. At the age of 18, he received a letter from the Jewish Council ...

(1923–1943): ''Hidden Letters'' *

Renia Spiegel Renia Spiegel (18 June 1924 – 30 July 1942) was a Jewish Polish diarist who was killed during World War II in the Holocaust. Spiegel's diary, kept between the ages of 15 and 18, documents her experience as a teenager living in the city of Pr ...

(1924–1942) ''Renia's Diary: A Holocaust Journal'' * Jerzy Feliks Urman (1932–1943): ''I'm Not Even a Grownup: The Diary of Jerzy Feliks Urman'' *Hilde Verdoner-Sluizer (1909–1944): ''Signs of Life: The Letters of Hilde Verdoner-Sluizer from Nazi Transit Camp Westerbork, 1942-1944'' *Béla Weichherz (1892–1942): ''In Her Father's Eyes: A Childhood Extinguished by the Holocaust'' *Gertrude Zeisler (1889–1942): ''I Did Not Survive: Letters from the Kielce Ghetto''

Published in other languages and not translated into English

* Jacques Bielinski (1930–1942): ''Journal 1940–1942. Un journaliste juif à Paris sous l'Occupation''. *

Helga Deen Helga Deen (6 April 1925 – 16 July 1943) was a Jewish diarist whose diary was discovered in 2004, which describes her stay in a Dutch prison camp, ''Herzogenbusch concentration camp, Kamp Vught'', where she was brought during World War II at the ...

(1925–1943): ''Dit is om nooit meer te vergeten : dagboek en brieven van Helga Deen, 1943''.

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Holocaust The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; a ...

Posthumous Posthumous may refer to: * Posthumous award - an award, prize or medal granted after the recipient's death * Posthumous publication – material published after the author's death * Posthumous (album), ''Posthumous'' (album), by Warne Marsh, 1987 * ...

* Works published posthumously