Heard about Rutka Laskier? Some 60 years back she lived in a congested Jews ghetto in Bedzin , Poland . She was barely 14 when she was experiencing everyday with panic and fear of Nazi atrocity.

When Germany captured Poland in the World War II, Rutka gradually put her step from childhood to her adolescence. But she could not be bloomed. She was deported to the Nazi concentration in Auschwitz . May be there in one gas chamber she was forced to inhale the toxic gas to death.

Anne Frank, the Dutch teenager whose Holocaust diary has become one of the most widely read books in the world, was the same age as Rutka. They were contemporaries. They would have been good friends if they would meet each other.  The diary of Anne having the vivid description Nazi atrocity has been translated in more than 60 languages and reached every nook and corner of this world.  

Rutka’s Notebook, published by Yad Vashem, includes a foreword by Rutka’s sister, Dr. Zahava Sherz, a historical introduction by Dr. Bella Gutterman, and the diary itself.

She shared it with her friend Stanislawa Sapinska, who she met after Rutka's family moved into a home owned by Sapinska's family, which had been confiscated by the Nazis to be included in the Bedzin ghetto. Sapinska came to inspect the house and the girls — one Jewish, one Christian — formed a deep bond. When Rutka feared she would not survive, she told her friend about the diary. Sapinska offered to hide it in the basement under the floorboards. After the war Stanislawa returned to the house and found the hidden diary. She kept the diary in her home library for more than 60 years and recently decided to make it available to the public.

Chronicles of the horrors she witnessed in a Jewish ghetto:

"I simply can't believe that one day I will be allowed to leave this house without the yellow star. Or even that this war will end one day. If this happens I will probably lose my mind from joy," she wrote on Feb. 5, 1943 .

"The little faith I used to have has been completely shattered. If God existed, He would have certainly not permitted that human beings be thrown alive into furnaces, and the heads of little toddlers be smashed with gun butts or shoved into sacks and gassed to death."

“I have a feeling that I am writing for the last time. There is an Aktion in town. I’m not allowed to go out and I’m going crazy, imprisoned in my own house… For a few days, something’s in the air… The town is breathlessly waiting in anticipation, and this anticipation is the worst of all. I wish it would end already! This torment; this is hell. I try to escape from these thoughts, of the next day, but they keep haunting me like nagging flies…” ( 20 February 1943 ).
 
"I simply can't believe that one day I will be allowed to leave this house without the yellow star. Or even that this war will end one day. If this happens I will probably lose my mind from joy," she wrote on Feb. 5, 1943 . (Some 6 million Jews were killed by the Nazis during World War II, after European Jews were herded into ghettos, banned from most jobs and forced to wear yellow stars to identify them.)

"The little faith I used to have has been completely shattered. If God existed, He would have certainly not permitted that human beings be thrown alive into furnaces, and the heads of little toddlers be smashed with gun butts or shoved into sacks and gassed to death."

"I wish it would end already! This torment; this is hell. I try to escape from these thoughts of the next day, but they keep haunting me like nagging flies. If only I could say, it's over, you only die once ... but I can't, because despite all these atrocities, I want to live, and wait for the following day."

However, Rutka would write again. Her last entry was dated April 24, 1943 , and her last written words were: "I'm very bored. The entire day I'm walking around the room. I have nothing to do."

In August, Rutka and her family were deported to Auschwitz ,where she is believed to have been killed upon arrival.

Rutka's father, Yaakov, was the family's only survivor. He died in 1986. But unlike Anne Frank's father, he kept his painful past inside. After the war, he moved to Israel , where he started a new family. His Israeli daughter, Zahava Sherz, said her father never spoke of his other children, and the diary introduced her to the long-lost family she never knew.