Table of Contents

Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction by Zlata Filipovic
Introduction by Melanie Challenger

World War I, 1914-18
Piete Kuhr, Germany, 1914-18 (12-16 years old)

World War II, 1939-45
Nina Kosterina, Russia, 1936-41 (15-20 years old)
Inge Pollak, Austria/United Kingdom, 1939-42 (12-15 years old)
William Wilson, New Zealand, 1941 (21 years old)
Hans Stauder, Germany, 1941 (21 years old)
Sheila Allan, Singapore, 1941-45 (17-21 years old)
Stanley Hayami, United States, 1942-44 (17-19 years old)

Holocaust, 1939-45
Yitskhok Rudashevski, Lithuania, 1940-42 (13-15 years old)
Clara Schwarz, Poland, 1942-44 (15-17 years old)

Vietnam War, 1964-73
Ed Blanco, United States, 1967-68 (19-20 years old)

Balkans War, 1991-95
Zlata Filipovic, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1991-93 (11-13 years old)

Second Intifada, 2000-
Shiran Zelikovich, Israel, 2002 (15 years old)
Mary Masrieh Hazboun, Palestine, 2002-4 (17-19 years old)

Iraq War, 2003-
Hoda Thamir Jehad, Iraq, 2003-4 (18-19 years old)

Glossary

About the Author

Zlata Filipovic wrote her diary between September 1991 and October 1993. Following its publication, she was awarded the Special Child of Courage Award by the Simon Wiesenthal Center. She and her family left Sarajevo in December of 1993, and used the proceeds from the book to launch a charity for child victims of the Bosnian war.

Reviews

One of Zlata’s gifts lies in throwing a human light on intolerable events. (San Francisco Chronicle)