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Miss Solodownik's diary
"Between One Jew and Another" was written in the 1920s by a Miss Solodownik. In ther diary she describes the resemblance between the community of Antwerp and the communities of Krakow, Vilna, Warsaw and Lvov. She wrote the diary in Yiddish, French and Hebrew, between the years 1926-1931, in Antwerp, Slonim, Kovno and Warsaw. The diary includes poems and translations into Hebrew of classical Russian poetry – Pushkin and Nekrasov; drafts of letters in French and various lists.
The author's forename is not known but it is clear that she was highly educated. Her sister, Ahuva Luba Chayat (née Solodownik) immigrated to Eretz Israel in 1933 and passed away in 1991. She received her sister's diary from an acquaintance. Her parents, brother and two sisters were sent to the Slonim ghetto and were murdered during the Holocaust.
The diary was given to Yad Vashem by Tova Brill, the writer's niece, at a collection day in Rechovot.