Raising their voices: children's resistance through diary writing and song

Analyses the diaries of six European Jewish children under German rule, boys and girls twelve to fourteen years of age when they began writing. These diaries were written at home, in hiding, in ghettos in transit camps. What the children wrote about was remarkably similar. They kept a record of their experiences, thinking them through, trying to learn to cope. Their diaries suggest that the most common cultural activity was making music and singing. The children's attempts to educate themselves, to prepare for the future demonstrate the failure of the Nazi project of dehumanization