Caroline Moorehead

Light thoughts in a dark time

Ruth Maier’s Diary, edited by Jan Erik Vold, translated by Jamie Bulloch

issue 13 June 2009

Ruth Maier’s Diary, edited by Jan Erik Vold, translated by Jamie Bulloch

‘Why shouldn’t we suffer when there is so much suffering?’ wrote Ruth Maier to her friend the Norwegian poet Gunvor Hofmo in a letter smuggled from the ship deporting her from Oslo to Auschwitz in the autumn of 1942.

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