is where she died at age 16. The diary Rywka's diary was unearthed in the ruins of the crematoria at Auschwitz-Birkenau in June 1945 by a Red Army doctor, Zinaida Berezovskaya, who took it with her back to the Soviet Union. She died in 1983. The diary was kept by her son along with other war memorabilia. He died in 1992. Zinaida's granddaughter, on a family visit to Russia, spotted the manuscript and took it with her. Over a decade later in 2008 she contacted the local Holocaust Center in San Francisco. The diary was hidden from the world in relatively good condition before it was offered. The last entry in the diary contains the following passages written in literary Polish; they were Rywka's final reflections on the beauty of the natural world in the time of sorrow: The diary, edited by Alexandra Zapruder, and accompanied by essays written by scholar Fred Rosenbaum and Rywka's cousin Hadassa Halamish, was published in English in early 2014 by the Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco Holocaust Center in partnership with Lehrhaus Judaica house of learning in Berkeley, California, and is titled The Diary of Rywka Lipszyc. Rywka Bajla Lipszyc is not to be confused with Rywka Lipszyc recorded in the Database of Shoah Victims (1888–1940) who died in the Łódź Ghetto, wife of Yekhiel. The diary was gifted to the family by Dr. Berezovskaya's granddaughter in 2015. It is now stored in Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. See also The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank References External links Stephanie Butnick, "Another Teenage Holocaust Diary Discovered", Tabletmag.com (March 18, 2014) Dan Pine, "The diary of another young girl: Holocaust journal comes to light in San Francisco", Jweekly.com (March 13, 2014) Michael Lieberman, "Anne Frank was not alone: Holocaust diary of 14-year-old Rywka Lipszyc finds the light", Book Patrol: A Haven for Book Culture, (March 18, 2014) 1929 births 1945 deaths Łódź Ghetto inmates Auschwitz concentration camp prisoners Polish people who died in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp Holocaust diarists Women diarists Polish diarists 20th-century women writers 20th-century Polish writers Polish Jews who died in the Holocaust