The Secret Holocaust Diaries: The Untold Story of Nonna Bannister

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The Secret Holocaust Diaries: The Untold Story of Nonna Bannister

by Nonna Bannister, Carolyn Tomlin (Contributor), Denise George (Contributor)

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Nonna Bannister carried a secret almost to her Tennessee grave: the diaries she kept as a young girl experiencing the horrors of the Holocaust while learning compassion and love for her fellow human beings. Nonna's writings tell the remarkable tale of how a Russian girl, born into a family that had known wealth and privileges, was exposed to the concentration camps and lea...more

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Published March 21st 2011 by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. (first published April 1st 2009)

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Feb 14, 2012 Ashley rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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I finished reading “The Secret Holocaust Diaries” by Nonna Bannister today. It was not what I had expected it to be but I was pleasantly surprised.

I had expected it to be similar to “The Diary of a Young Girl” by Anne Frank but it wasn’t, and for very good reasons. Anne Frank was a young Jewish girl who was hiding from the German Nazi’s to avoid being sent to concentration camps and, ultimately, her death. Nonna Bannister was a young privileged Russian girl who is caught up in the German invasio...more I finished reading “The Secret Holocaust Diaries” by Nonna Bannister today. It was not what I had expected it to be but I was pleasantly surprised.

I had expected it to be similar to “The Diary of a Young Girl” by Anne Frank but it wasn’t, and for very good reasons. Anne Frank was a young Jewish girl who was hiding from the German Nazi’s to avoid being sent to concentration camps and, ultimately, her death. Nonna Bannister was a young privileged Russian girl who is caught up in the German invasion and occupation of Russia during World War II and is forced in to slave labor camps. While both girls endured the Holocaust and recorded their experiences in diaries, they lived very different lives.

Nonna Bannister is born to a Polish father and a Russian mother who is from an aristocratic family. She describes her life in detail from large family reunions in 37-room homes complete with hired help to sleigh rides and a father who spoke 8 languages while working a very prestigious job and a mother who had attended a private school to study music and the arts. Her mother played the violin and the piano and was also an accomplished artist. Needless to say, Nonna was not familiar with any sort of suffering. That changed when Josef Stalin rose to power.

Under the rule of Josef Stalin her family faces the loss of family members and as communism rose her family’s prestige fell because farmland and animals were taken to serve as community property. They were no longer allowed to own private farmland or private livestock, they were also no longer allowed to have hired help so her grandmother had to be deceptive and claim that her favorite staff member was a cousin. Eventually Germany invades Russia and as the German invasion spread and began to occupy all of Russia Nonna’s family lost more of their properties and more of their wealth. The German’s were suspicious primarily of the Russian men so her older brother was sent away so he had a chance of survival and her father goes in to hiding. Nonna and her mother fled and lived in tiny house after tiny house trying to simply survive the occupation. They were eventually offered two choices by the Germans and they chose the one which gave them the best chance of survival but which also forced them to board a train to Germany. The passengers on the train were all separated in to different cars, the Russians, Ukrainians and Polish were forced in to some rail cars while the Jewish passengers were forced in to others. The Russians, Ukrainians and Polish (the East) were allowed to use the bathroom in the bushes during stops and were allowed meager helpings of food while the Jewish passengers were never allowed out of their boxcars and were starved. Eventually Nonna witnesses a mass murder of some Jewish passengers and then she, along with the rest of the Eastern passengers, continue toward Germany. Nonna and her mother are transferred from one slave labor camp to another and then another until Nonna’s ability to speak multiple languages fluently (taught to her by her father) land them a position in a hospital. At the hospital they are treated more like equals than slaves, even though they were technically still slaves, until the German government discovers Nonna’s mother’s deceit and dishonesty and transfers her to a concentration camp.

Nonna struggles, but survives, the ordeal and eventually WWII is over and the camps are rescued. Nonna then realizes her family’s dream of moving to America where she marries and starts a new life.

The whole book is heart-wrenching and tragic (as all Holocaust stories are) but I appreciated the perspective from a non-Jewish survivor. I found the Russian perspective fascinating and eye-opening. Please do not expect this book to be a grand novel as written by a best-selling author, remember this was originally written by a child and young teenager. Nonna originally wrote her diaries in 8 different languages because she was afraid of them being discovered. She reasoned that if they were written in 8 languages they would be harder to translate. She translated them herself when she was in her 70′s and added a few details and memories, those transcripts were then typed out by her husband and eventually published in this book along with editor’s notes to help the reader understand certain references to political figures, people, and events. It is not the smoothest read but it is definitely interesting. I loved it.(less)

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Apr 28, 2011 Lyndsey marked it as to-read · review of another edition

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May 14, 2013 Nick Frogge rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I just finished reading this book, and I personally loved it. For me, it is really hard to find a good book most of the time, but I really did enjoy reading this book. It was great to hear about the holocaust from a young childs point of view. This book had a lot of history involved with it. I have always found interest in the holocaust, and I thought that this book really showed it well. Although, I thought that some parts of this book got to be boring, and slow-to-read. But other than that, I...more

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Apr 15, 2013 Alisha rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I hate to say this about a book with a historical significance like this one, but I found it utterly boring. I honestly don't think it was the author Nonna's fault, as it seemed like most the material given would have made a good story. Rather it was all the tedious, unnecessary inserts, and the odd way it was put together. I would have liked to see things from the beginning of her childhood toward the end, instead of jumping from event to event whenever the editor saw fit. It also felt like a l...more

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Feb 05, 2013 Elizabeth Noah rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Nonna Bannister was a young Russian girl when WW2 started. This book is about her life before the war and how it was during the war.

It talks about how Nonna and her mother were used for slave labor. How the war touched her as well even though she may or may not have been Jewish.

Overall I liked the book but, the notes that were injected were just duplicates of what Nonna had said. Also it talks about pictures that she has of people not only in her family but that helped her. I really wish that th...more

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Aug 06, 2012 Teresa Crawford rated it 4 of 5 stars

This book is written from a young Russian girl's perspective. It was taken from clips of her diary that she started when she was 8/9 years old until she was about 16 when WWII ended.

I actually liked getting to know Nonna through her earlier diary entries, it helped to get a feel of how she grew up and her background. This book definitely didn't have that polished/professional feel, more like I climbed up her attic stairs and found her locked trunk with all her notes, papers, photographs and cli...more

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Aug 05, 2012 Aimee rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Nonna Bannister records a fresh, unique perspective about the Holocaust. As an elderly American woman, she began translating her childhood diaries into English and eventually shared them with her husband. After her death, they were edited and published in this form. There are various stories here. Some are heartbreaking, some are sweet, and some are even humorous. Together, they provide a glimpse into the life of a young girl struggling to understand the changes in her life and cope with the los...more

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Apr 11, 2012 Lynn Dove rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Married for well over 50 years, Nonna has kept a secret hidden from her entire family. Written memories locked away and sewn inside a tattered pillow case are suddenly brought to light as Nonna shares her past with her husband and children. Raised in a well-to-do Russian family, the quiet life of a young girl is torn apart when Germany invades Poland.

Trying to flee persecution not only from the Russians because of her family's ties to Csarist Russia, as well as the Germans as they eradicate all...more

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Feb 07, 2012 Etta Mcquade rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Many people may not be aware that non-Jews were Holocaust victims, such as Nonna Bannister, a Russian girl who was imprisoned in German labor camps with her mother, who later was transferred to a concentration camp where she was burned to death in an oven. Her father was brutally killed by Nazi soldiers in Russia. What's amazing about Nonna is that she kept a diary from the time she was nine years old and still in Russia, hidden under her clothes and tied around her waist in a small pillow, even...more

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Feb 05, 2012 Amy rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: memoir, history, non-fiction

I love reading memoirs and diaries. They are the best insight into a world of the past and a great lesson for the future. This book is no different. Nonna Bannister's diaries from her time during the second world war are frightening and heartfelt. It is so hard to believe that the atrocities she witnessed really happened but there is not doubt that they didn't. I am impressed that she translated all of her diaries from the various languages she learned from her father as a child. She also kept h...more

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Jan 15, 2012 Sandy rated it 5 of 5 stars

The Secret Holocaust Diaries of Nonna Bannister is the narrative of an adolescent Russian girl whose idyllic life is transformed by the horrors of the Second World War. Walks in the park with her mother, language lessons with her father, and holidays in ther grandmother's Great House come to an abrupt end as war comes to her family, separating them as they struggle to survive.

Nonna witnesses first-hand the abuse of starving, freezing German soldiers who stab her dead father through the chest as...more The Secret Holocaust Diaries of Nonna Bannister is the narrative of an adolescent Russian girl whose idyllic life is transformed by the horrors of the Second World War. Walks in the park with her mother, language lessons with her father, and holidays in ther grandmother's Great House come to an abrupt end as war comes to her family, separating them as they struggle to survive.

Nonna witnesses first-hand the abuse of starving, freezing German soldiers who stab her dead father through the chest as he lay in bed--after weeks of suffering from injuries inflicted by other German soldiers who had found him hiding in a tunnel connected to a root cellar at her grandmother's home.

Nonna and her mother, Anna, forage for food in the fields and make temporary homes in the abandoned houses of villages whose residents were driven out by retreating Russians or marauding Germans. They rescue a Jewish baby tossed onto a train by her mother only to witness the baby's murder as a Nazi soldier snaps the baby like a twig. They endure the indignities of life in slave labor camps. They are afforded a modicum of comfort when the Nazis discover Nonna's mother's talents as a painter, singer, and violinist. However, when Anna is too tired to perform any more, Gestapo agents break her arms and leave her without medical care.

Throughout the war, Nonna keeps her diaries secreted in a little down pillow that her grandmother had made for her. These diaries survive the war and travel to America with Nonna when she emigrates from Germany in 1950. She keeps to herself the stories they tell until late in her life, when she shares her own translations of them with her husband.

The sole member of her family to survive the war, Nonna becomes a wife and mother of three children in the US. She died in 2004.

Though the pages of these diaries are filled with horrors that defy the imagination, the fact of their being written by a teenaged girl who would go on to live a good and productive life shows that integrity and honesty can trump evil. That Nonna Bannister has the grace to forgive those men who savagely tore her life apart speaks to the power of the soul to heal itself by choosing grace.(less)

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Jan 12, 2012 Jennie Dopp rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This book was a bit different than other Holocaust accounts I've read. We know the Holocaust impacted many types of people including those who where not Jewish. This is just one account of a non-Jewish survivor.

It was interesting to read the author’s perspective as a Russian during the war and her interactions with the German Army. Nonna and her family had some connections that benefited them, however they still experienced great hardship and loss. If this was their account of the war, I can onl...more

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Oct 06, 2011 Rich Weiss rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Nonna Bannister revealed a gruesome reality that she and her family faced during her experiences growing up in war-torn Europe. Through her notes and diary entries that were reconstructed following her death, her family (and editors) brought provided a heart-felt account of how Nonna's happier days during her childhood, spent with her family at her grandmother's "grand house" turned into a frenzy of killing and madness, and a struggle for survival. Nonna's father had died shortly after he had be...more

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Aug 10, 2011 Vonette rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I hate to give this book less than 4 stars because I really think people should read it. The story of Nonna's life is worth hearing. I am glad that I read the book and hope others will as well. There is much to learn from history, and I definitely learned some history (particularly about Russia) which I did not know.

Having said that, I have to also agree with a number of other reviewers that the editing of the book could have been better. Some of the insertions seem to simply repeat much of wha...more I hate to give this book less than 4 stars because I really think people should read it. The story of Nonna's life is worth hearing. I am glad that I read the book and hope others will as well. There is much to learn from history, and I definitely learned some history (particularly about Russia) which I did not know.

Having said that, I have to also agree with a number of other reviewers that the editing of the book could have been better. Some of the insertions seem to simply repeat much of what Nonna has already clearly explained (IMO) while other things that I would have appreciated more expansion on were given little comment. Furthermore, I felt that some things (such as the role of the pillow, when she received it, how she managed to keep it with her throughout her travels, how the photos ended up inside), I had to piece together from comments here and there or simply conjecture about. Regarding her life after coming to America, there was at least some helpful info at the end of the audiobook version in the form of a telephone interview with Nonna's son and husband. The interview was good to hear, but if I had been putting this book together, I would have begun with much more of this information in order to tantalize the reader into wanting to know more about Nonna's mysterious past after first coming to know a little about what an amazing woman she was in later life. The reader is much more invested in a story when they have been made to take an intest in and care about the main character from the get go.

A number of things (such as the pillow I mentioned above) were never clearly explained. I will give another example. Toward the end of the book, the editor writes that while Nonna's family still has the photos and many of the papers she wrote, the "holocaust diaries" have been lost, the suggestion being that Nonna hid them before her death. Yet, the editor never explains exactly what is meant by the phrase "holocaust diaries." Nonna herself was never in a concentration camp. Did they mean the diaries she kept during her entire time in Germany until the war ended? Did they mean only the ones she kept while in the labor camps? Or maybe they also included the ones she kept during the entire wartime period, including the part of the war she spent in Russia? The only thing I was certain of was that the diaries from her happy childhood times were not lost. Allow me to mention one more example of confusion. Which concentration camp did Nonna's mother die in? I understood Nonna to explain that her mother died in Flossenberg after being transferred from Ravensbruch, but later in the editor's notes and interviews it is stated that she died in Ravensbruch.

Other reviewers have mentioned their frustration at the apparent lack of attempt to discover if Nonna's brother survived. This was actually elaborated on somewhat in the interview I mentioned before ( the one at the end of the audiobook). However, it seems to me that some enterprising person needs to go to Russia and find the "great house" and any information about Nonna's grandmother, brother, and extended family that can be tracked down. Whether any info is actually found, I think readers would be interested to know what attempts were made. Then, the book should be expanded and reorganized with all of the photos included. Under those circumstances it could certainly merit 5 stars. (less)

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Jul 04, 2011 Joan Sherwood rated it 5 of 5 stars

This is an amazing book. Nonna was a very smart, well educated Russian girl who came from a wealthy, privileged family with a long history of service to the Tsar. Her father taught her several languages as a very young child and this may have saved her life. Her mother was a talented musician and artist and this too played a part in Nonna's survival, and for a time, her mother's survival.

Nonna Bannister kept a diary as a girl and continued as long as she could on scraps of paper that she someho...more

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Jul 01, 2011 E.B. Loan rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This story follows the life of Nonna Bannister. Her hand written notes, transcribed into a story, taken after her death to a publisher. Wow. It is amazing. The story itself--gut wrenching. True. Unbearable at times. The history & timeline are unwound and even challenged at times, by the publisher/'author'. I read this book on vacation...in the airport. It was so good, so totally spellbinding, that I could not put it down until the very end.
Even after the war, when Nonna is safe & sound,...more

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May 24, 2011 Cathy rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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This is a compilation of diaries and later writings by a child (born in 1927) of a well-to-do family who lived in the Ukraine. It tells of the hardships and fears following the Russian revolution, the rise of Stalin, and the family's destruction during the Second World War.
Nonna never told her family of her childhood experiences until she was in her 60s. At that time she showed her husband her diaries and photos that she had managed to save through the war.
At the time of her revelation she had "...more

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Apr 26, 2011 Ashley rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I think a lot of people are too critical of this book. Please understand before reading it that this is NOT going to be similar it the diary of Anne Frank because Nonna is not Jewish and is not being pursued and persecuted because of her faith. This is the diary of a privileged young Russian girl whose family survives the Russian Revolution, endures Stalin's rule, German's invasion and occupation of Russia and the Holocaust. As a Russian, Nonna is not subjected to the concentration camps but rat...more

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Apr 16, 2011 Christine Rebbert rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

It's always difficult to say something such as you "liked" or "enjoyed" a book about the Holocaust. I actually had read this a few years back and forgotten about it until a couple days ago, when I was on some other book website and saw the picture of the book -- and those haunting eyes brought the memory back...

The book is basically what its title suggests it is. Nonna and her mother are taken to the camps, and she manages to obtain little scraps of paper and pencil to keep a diary of her time t...more

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Apr 08, 2011 Chris rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: history-ww-ii, lit-russia, kindle-freebie, letters-diaries-memoirs, history-russia-and-eastern-europe

The only reason why I am giving this book four stars is because the Kindle edition, at least, lacks the photos that are constantly mentioned. I'm not sure if the photos were included in the print edition of the book nor am I sure why the Kindle edition couldn't use them because of the material that does appear in the appendix. But honestly, if you keep mentioning photos in the notes, you should include the photos.

Nonna Bannister was a Russian, who may or may not have been of Jewish heritage. She...more

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Jun 14, 2010 Kimberly Bartlett rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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“Nonna Bannister carried a secret almost to her Tennessee grave: the diaries she kept as a young girl experiencing the Nazi atrocities while learning compassion and love for her fellow human beings. Nonna’s writings tell the remarkable tale of how a Russian girl, born into a family that had known wealth and privileges, was exposed to the concentration camps and learned the value of human life and the importance of forgiveness.”

Reminiscent of my favorite book growing up “The Diary of...more

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May 14, 2010 Kristina rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Nonna Bannister left behind the horrors of her European childhood when she relocated to the United States alone. Having lost all of her family, including her brother Anatoly with whom she was quite close to the Nazi regime, Nonna closed the door on her life in Europe and started afresh in the United States. Throughout her marriage, the birth of her children, and her latter years, she did not speak of the immense cruelty she suffered at the hands of the Germans, however one day, she opened her se...more

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Apr 13, 2010 Janna rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I often times hesitate to review non-fiction books because they take me a lot longer to read than fiction books do, they just tend to slow down the rapid rate at which I zip through books. Until now. This may be one of the best non-fiction books I have ever read.

This is the gripping true story of Nonna Bannister and her survival of the Holocaust during WWII as a Russian (though there are strong suspicions that her father had Jewish blood). Her family lost everything and she and her mom ended u...more

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Apr 12, 2010 Nora St Laurent rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This is an amazing story of the courage and faith of a thirteen year old girl living through horrific times. In the first part Nonna talks how she enjoyed her family and what it was like being a kid back then. Her family had many grain mills and was pretty well off...until the war hit and the government took over every single one of their mills. The government allowed them the big family house which they stayed in when the government strongly suggested they evacuate. They stayed to protect what...more This is an amazing story of the courage and faith of a thirteen year old girl living through horrific times. In the first part Nonna talks how she enjoyed her family and what it was like being a kid back then. Her family had many grain mills and was pretty well off...until the war hit and the government took over every single one of their mills. The government allowed them the big family house which they stayed in when the government strongly suggested they evacuate. They stayed to protect what little they had left. Nonna’s grandmother hoped that the house would be a meeting place for their scattered family after the war.

This book is written through Nonna’s tender eyes and how she made sense of things at thirteen. After their Christmas celebration, the war started and rumors spread. No one was sure how close the enemy was. Nonna writes in her diary, “I was confused, angry and sad about what the Germans had done. Also, I was trying to figure out what the Jews had done to be treated this way. There was no reason that I could think of.” She soon found out that no one was safe from the Germans.

Because Nonna's family refused to evacuate, they would be treated as traitors and possibly killed. So, Nonna writes, “…when the Germans offered us transportation to Germany, we had no choice but to take them up on their offer. The Germans needed some laborers in their factories. We heard later that those who stayed behind and did not leave Konstantinowka were thrown on trains and sent to Siberia or killed.”

An adult Nonna writes this, “I believe forgiveness is important. It is to forgive, as God teaches us, but never forget—rather, to apply the truth to our lives in such a way that we do not repeat our sins over and over again.”

This is one powerful story told through innocent eyes, trying to make sense of the world around her. It’s a miracle she has survived to tell this courageous eye witness account. You won't want to miss this one.

Nora St. Laurent
ACFW Book Club Coordinator
Finding Hope Through Fiction
www.psalm516.blogspot.com
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Apr 07, 2010 Renee rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I jumped on this book when it was offered because it's very possible that my ancestors suffered similar atrocities. My maternal grandmother's side of the family is Carpatho-Rusyn from an area that is now Slovakia. I am uncertain of the origin of my maternal grandfather's family - he always said Russian but I've been unable to find immigration records to verify the information. While my immediate family didn't suffer, they came to America soon after the turn of the 20th century, it's possible tha...more

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Sep 04, 2009 Susy Flory rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Tea with Nonna: I bought The Secret Holocaust Diaries a few weeks ago and started reading it. What an amazing book! Nonna Bannister was a gifted young Russian girl from a loving, warm, and wealthy family. Caught up in the horror of World War II, she watched everything and everyone she knew and loved disintegrate before her eyes. Yet Nonna miraculously survived, with her faith intact and her secret diaries hidden away, known only to her until recently. What is most astonishing to me was Nonna's l...more

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Jun 24, 2009 Meaghan rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: read-in-2009, holocaust, holocaust-memoirs, holocaust-gentile-victims

The title is a misnomer: very little of this book is diary entries. Almost all of it is memoirs written by Nonna Bannister decades after World War II, along with poems she wrote in her youth. Historical notes attempt to add context to Bannister's disjointed and at times confusing narrative.

I didn't find this book to be all that interesting. Bannister writes in great detail about her happy childhood in a wealthy, educated Russian/Polish family, but practically skims over her experiences as a slav...more

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Mar 23, 2012 Ruth Ann rated it 4 of 5 stars

Nonna Bannister's story is a true memoir pieced together from her childhood and young adult diaries. Perhaps the title of the book is somewhat misleading because Nonna's life story jumps back to her family background after an introductory incident on a German wartime train out of the Ukraine. However, I find this part of her life important to understand how she was able to survive the horrors that she lived through.

Nonna secretly translated the diaries onto yellow legal notepads in her twilig...more

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Jan 04, 2012 Melissa rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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I too hate to give this less than 4 stars because it should be read. However, because it is a retelling through a translation of personal childhood diaries, the flow of the story is a bit broken. The addition of the editorial notes, while helping to explain the some phrases or clarify places/persons also disrupts the flow of the story. Regardless, the stories and the Nonna's firsthand accounts make for a worthwhile read.

Nonna recounts her experiences living through WWII under both Stalin and the...more

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Aug 23, 2011 Michelle Gerber rated it 3 of 5 stars

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