Biography & Autobiography Historical
Buried Words
The Diary of Molly Applebaum
- Publisher
- The Azrieli Foundation
- Initial publish date
- Apr 2017
- Category
- Historical, Jewish Studies, Holocaust
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781988065274
- Publish Date
- Apr 2017
- List Price
- $6.99
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Description
Hidden away underground, in a box, twelve-year-old Molly has only her older cousin and her diary to keep her company. For two years, she writes of her confinement “in a grave”: the cold, dark and stuffiness, the unbearable suffering from insufficient food, and the complicated reliance on the two farmers who are risking their own lives to save her. Buried Words is a stark confession of Molly’s fears, despair and secrets and, above all, her fervent wish to stay alive.
About the author
Molly Applebaum was born in Krakow, Poland, in 1930. After the war, she spent three years in displaced persons camps in Europe before immigrating to Canada as a war orphan. Buried Words is the first English translation of the diary Molly wrote in Polish from 1942–1944 while hidden on a farm in Dabrowa Tarnowska, Poland. Molly Applebaum lives in Toronto.
