The Years of Extermination

 

On the first day of June 1942, a fourteen-year-old Polish Jew, Dawid Rubinowicz, was writing his diary. He had been writing for the previous two years, soberly charting the persecution that he, his family and his community was enduring. On that day, he had recorded the arbitrary murder of two Jewish women from his village, who had run into a German patrol.  This would be his final entry, however, and it would end, dramatically, mid-sentence.  Dawid would perish in Treblinka.