Brings to life the diaries of young people who witnessed first-hand the horrors of the Holocaust. Through an emotional montage of archival footage, personal photos, and text from the diaries themselves, the film celebrates a group of brave, young writers who refused to quietly disappear.
Acting
Celebrity voices that disappear—only the words remain.
Direction
Lazin lets silence and faces do the screaming.
Editing
Diary entries cut like wounds against archival footage.
Director
Lauren Lazin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Petr Ginz's drawing of Earth from the moon was carried aboard Space Shuttle Columbia in 2003—destroyed when the shuttle disintegrated on re-entry, becoming lost twice.
This MTV production aired during a bizarre 2005 moment when Holocaust education was being packaged for teens through celebrity culture—part of a wave including 'The Pianist' and early 'Schindler's List' classroom canonization.
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Peters story really touched me. especially the part about how he kept writing to his parents, not realising that they were dead
@elernation5519 153
I was assigned this by my English teacher. The end made me cry. It really made me think about my own life and how grateful I am. I can't believe what those kids had to go through. Such a tragedy.
@starpower1367 124
I found this documentary extremely sad! The raw emotions expressed by those who wrote the dairies was overwhelming. The loss of such articulate beautiful intelligent young people for no reason at all is incomprehensible, but worst of all is the mockery that follows with the comments below.
@Cristina6537 79
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