“A Revolutionary Jewish Woman during the Holocaust: Hinda Deul and the Holocaust in Oszmiana, Belarus”, published in Tsaytshrift, Vol. 8, (2022): 153-167.
The article focuses on an interesting Ego-Document, a unique personal diary, written by Hinda Deul. It miraculously survived and was brought to Israel, even though its writer had perished. Deul was a 35-years-old teacher, living in Oszmiana, and she describes the events which unfold during WWII and the Holocaust. She was also a member of the Oszmiana Ghetto’s Judenrat, and so had accesses to inside information.
The case of Hinda Deul from Oszmiana, who stands at the core of the paper, is certainly a story of an “ordinary” woman who had left us a “peripheral” source, a personal diary written in Polish in real-time. She is unknown to Holocaust scholars and the general public, and her role and writing had been neglected, or even deliberately suppressed, in the Holocaust historiography.
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