19-year-old girl killed in Auschwitz left a diary saying "never war"

More than 70 years ago, a Polish girl in the middle of the flower season recorded the fate of herself and the ordinary people around her after the outbreak of World War II. The diary's author, Anna Sinel, was killed in 1943 at Auschwitz in southern Poland at the age of 19.

Pavel Sawitzki, a staff member of the Auschwitz press office, told reporters about the diary and her owner.

Anna was born on January 31, 1924 in Warsaw, Poland, the only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Chinel, and had a habit of keeping a diary. After the outbreak of World War II, Anna began to record what she saw and heard until she was imprisoned in Auschwitz. Years later, Anna's father found the diary under the wooden floor of the kitchen at home.

Anna's diary chronicles the devastation of Warsaw between September 1939 and August 1940, documents her confusion and suffering, and shows the real life of the Warsaw people during the war.

As war broke out, the carefree girlhood came to an abrupt end. When reading this diary, the reader can deeply feel Anna's thirst for knowledge and hatred for war.

During the occupation of Warsaw, Anna and her classmates attended classes in secret, but failed to take the final exams. On the night of April 28, 1942, Anna was imprisoned in Paviac Prison, where she met other classmates and two teachers.

They were brutally interrogated in prison, two female teachers were persecuted to death, and Anna herself was sent to Auschwitz on November 13, 1942, number 24447. On March 19, 1943, Anna was executed. Among her relics is a poem titled "I Long for Freedom", excerpted below:

"Day after day, I burst into tears,

Every day is bitter.

Oh, all I see is gray,

I was greeted by the smoke of loneliness..."

After the war, Anna's father discovered his daughter's diary and read it with grief. His daughter's tragic experience is his lingering shadow, and his daughter's fate is also the epitome of thousands of innocent victims. Therefore, he has always had a wish, that is, to let the world know the fate of his daughter and understand that history.

In 1980, after the Polish writer Majelski read Anna's diary, his heart was deeply touched. This diary not only records the changes in the fate of ordinary people, but also provides a lot of material for studying that period of history. Mayevsky edited and published the diary under the title Anna Maria.

By publishing this diary, Maevsky hopes to tell the world what war is and what war brings to ordinary people. War not only killed the dreams of countless children and adolescents who aspired to acquire knowledge, but even took their precious lives. He hopes that readers will reflect on Anna's diary after reading it.

Savitsky said that peace-loving people all over the world, after visiting Auschwitz, will cry from the bottom of their hearts that they will never go to war. War not only destroys lives, but also destroys people's hearts.

Built in 1940, Auschwitz was the largest concentration camp built by Nazi Germany during World War II, where some 1.1 million people, including large numbers of Jews, were killed. On January 27, 1945, the Red Army liberated Auschwitz. On 1 November 2005, the 60th plenary session of the General Assembly unanimously adopted a resolution to designate 27 January of each year as the International Day of Holocaust Remembrance. (Xinhuanet)