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| Romeo and Juliet (by Sir Frank Dicksee) |
And yet... Within the
aborted life of Renia Spiegel, a first kiss was quickly followed by Nazi discovery. A Polish Jew in hiding during World War II, Spiegel had been found by soldiers and then shot dead.
Just hours before that, she had shared a first kiss with the love of her short life, Zygmunt
Schwarzer. He wound up surviving Auschwitz and becoming “a doctor in the US army.” Schwarzer had meanwhile saved the diary that Spiegel had kept for three gruesome years.
Here’s an entry that the 18-year-old had made shortly before her murder: Lord God, let us live,
I beg You, I want to live! I’ve experience so little of life… Today I’m worried about being ugly,
tomorrow I might stop thinking
forever.
Resources
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-49646797
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