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Rutka Laskier

1929 - 1943

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Ruth "Rutka" Laskier (12 June 1929 – December 1943) was a Jewish Polish diarist who is best known for her 1943 diary chronicling three months of her life during the Holocaust in Poland. She was murdered at Auschwitz concentration camp in 1943 at the age of fourteen. Her manuscript, authenticated by Yad Vashem, was published in the Polish language in early 2006. English and Hebrew translations were released the following year. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Rutka Laskier is the 3,253rd most popular writer (up from 3,528th in 2019), the 706th most popular biography from Poland (up from 758th in 2019) and the 73rd most popular Polish Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Rutka Laskier ranks 3,253 out of 7,302. Before her are Gaston Rébuffat, Eric Ambler, Yasutaka Tsutsui, Qian Zhongshu, Tudor Arghezi, and Andrija Kačić Miošić. After her are Christopher Hampton, Robert Fisk, Maria Dąbrowska, Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, Miguel Torga, and Ahmed Mohammed al-Maqqari.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Rutka Laskier ranks 246. Before her are George Crumb, Milton Glaser, Péter Szondi, Alla Horska, István Kertész, and Lolita Torres. After her are Karin Lindberg, Ulla Jacobsson, Hong Song-nam, Toshiko Akiyoshi, James McDivitt, and Yves Lacoste. Among people deceased in 1943, Rutka Laskier ranks 121. Before her are Georg, Crown Prince of Saxony, Grand Duke Boris Vladimirovich of Russia, Lajos Werkner, Yury Tynyanov, Yemelyan Yaroslavsky, and Azim Azimzade. After her are Winnaretta Singer, Hristo Lukov, Johan Ludwig Mowinckel, Walther von Hünersdorff, Henri-Jean Guillaume Martin, and Anita Augspurg.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Rutka Laskier ranks 706 out of 1,694. Before her are Czesław Kiszczak (1925), Ernst Wiechert (1887), Zenon Grocholewski (1939), Stefan Rowecki (1895), Marek Janowski (1939), and August Zaleski (1883). After her are Maria Dąbrowska (1889), Oskar Kummetz (1891), Helena Modjeska (1840), Bernhard Grzimek (1909), Miliza Korjus (1905), and Aleksander Gierymski (1850).

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Among WRITERS In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, Rutka Laskier ranks 73. Before her are Stefanie Zweig (1932), Marcin Bielski (1495), Bronisława Wajs (1908), Yakov Perelman (1882), Maria Wirtemberska (1768), and Ernst Wiechert (1887). After her are Maria Dąbrowska (1889), Bernhard Grzimek (1909), Salomėja Nėris (1904), Uwe Johnson (1934), Nathan Alterman (1910), and Ewald Christian von Kleist (1715).

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