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Ana Novac — Wikipedia (en)

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Ana Novac (June 21, 1929 – March 31, 2010) was a Romanian-born actress and writer. She was born Zimra Harsányi in Dej in northern Transylvania and grew up in Oradea (Nagyvárad). She later said, "I have never been able to specify precisely either my nationality or my native language... In three generations my family changed nationality four times." Novac began keeping a diary at the age of eleven, writing it so often that she was prohibited from doing so any more "on the grounds that it interfered with my appetite and my sleep, to say nothing of my homework." After diary writing was no longer allowed, she "often scribbled under the desk in class, or in the bathroom". Novac began attending a Jewish boarding school in Miskolc, Hungary after Jews were expelled from state schools. She left "six big notebooks" of her diary with her concierge before she went away to boarding school. When Nazi Germany took control of Hungary in the spring of 1944, in May, Novac was arrested while on a train home to Oradea, and never saw her family again. She and a group of other Jewish people were detained in a ghetto on the site of a brickyard, and there Novac witnessed "a rush to suicide, a veritable epidemic, which was reserved for rich, because the cyanide that people brought in--God knows how--commanded phenomenal prices". She made several attempts to escape the brickyard but was always caught and brought back. She was sent to Auschwitz and stated she did not remember the trip, that her "first memory is of a pencil stub that I found in the sand." She was able to maintain her diary from June to November 1944, hiding pages in her shoes. When she left Auschwitz, she asked a lagerkapo for his notebook, telling him, "I am a writer." He gave the notebook and a pencil to her, and she used those for her diary. She also spent time in the Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp. At one point she had parts of the diary smuggled out of the Płaszów camp by another prisoner who was being released. She gave him the address of her family's concierge and asked him to send it to them, and he did, and she was able to recover it after the war. Another prisoner who knew about the existence of Novac's diary demanded she burn it, and she lied and said she had. One of her friends, a woman Novac referred to only as "the sculptress", took two of the notebooks from Novac and hid them in her own boots. After they left Płaszów and were put on a train to Auschwitz, during the journey, the sculptress died. One of the last things she did was unlace her boots and say, "before it's too late," which Novac interpreted as a reference to her diary notebooks, which were inside the sculptress's boots. During her second time in Auschwitz, she wrote in her diary that she got no work assignment at first and would "squat down anywhere with my papers and not attract anyone's attention." She found a hiding place, wrote there "little, and with difficulty", and slept there, except during roll call and bread and soup di

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