Renia Spiegel: Renia's Diary, a book presentation with translator Jana Unuk and Boris Hajdinjak. The discussion will be moderated by Bogumiła Płachtej.

Renia Spiegel was born into a Jewish family in Poland in 1924. In 1939, just before the German and Soviet invasions of Poland, she began writing a diary, in which she described everyday life during the occupation, school, problems with friends, first love, the unbearable pain of separation from her mother, and the longing for peace. She weaved the events together with her thoughtful, caustic, and surprisingly mature poetry. The last entry in the diary was made by Renia's boyfriend in July 1942, after she was killed by the Germans. Renia's diary is part of the Bellak family's family legacy, and was only publicly published a few years ago. In 2022, a Slovenian translation prepared by Jana Unuk was published by the Mladinska knjiga Založba publishing house. Bogumiła Płachtej, a colleague at the Polish Embassy in Ljubljana, will talk to the translator and director of the Maribor Synagogue, Boris Hajdinjak.