The World Will Read Renia's Diary: An Account of the Polish Teenager Who Was Killed by the Nazis in 1942

For nearly 70 years, the secret diary of a Polish Jewish teenager, Renia Spiegel, was locked away in a New York bank vault.

Now Renia's diary, "A Young Girl's Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust" will finally be published by her family.

The diary was described by the publisher, Penguin Books, as: "A remarkable testament to the horrors of war and to the life that can exist even in the darkest of times."

The diary will be released on September 19.

The girl lived in Przemysl, south-eastern Poland, which was under Soviet occupation until the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union in 1941.

The diary, nearly 700 pages long, begins in January 1939 when Renia was 15 years old, recounts her escape from the bombings of her hometown, the disappearance of other Jewish families and the creation of the ghetto. Renia and her sister Elizabeth were separated from their mother, who was on the German side during the war.

As an aspiring poet, Renia also filled her diary with dozens of compositions, as well as accounts of her first love, a boy named Zygmunt Schwarzer. They shared their first kiss a few hours before the Nazis reached Przemysl.

Renia was killed in July 1942 at the age of 18 when the Nazis found her hiding in an attic.

She left the diary to her boyfriend and wrote in the last lines: "Three shots! Three lives lost! All I can hear is shots, shots.”

Schwarzer gave the diary to another person for safekeeping while he himself was deported to Auschwitz. He managed to survive and moved to the USA. In 1950 he managed to give the diary to Renia's sister, Elizabeth, and her mother, Roza, who lived in New York.

Elizabeth could not read it herself, so she decided to leave it in a bank vault. That was until 2012, when her daughter Alexandra Bellak translated the diary into English so that people from all over the world could read it.

"I was curious about my past, my heritage and this wonderful woman whose name I bear. The middle name is Renata. My mom couldn't read the diary, it was too painful for her," Alexandra told CNN, reports mapo.

Excerpts from the diary:

7 June 1942

Everywhere I look, there is blood. Such terrible massacres. There is murder, murder.

Lord, for the umpteenth time I bow before you, help us, protect us!

God, let us live, please, I want to live! I have experienced so little in life.

I don't want to die. I'm afraid of death. Everything is so silly, so petty, so insignificant, so small.

Today I'm worried that I'm ugly, tomorrow I might stop thinking forever.

15 July 1942

Don't forget this day, remember it well.

You will tell the generations to come.

Since 8 o'clock we have been locked in the ghetto. I live here now.

The world is separate from me and I am separate from the world.