Tomasz magierski biography examples

Anne Frank was not the only young girl who wrote a diary during the years of the Holocaust. There was also Renia Spiegel, who wrote some 700 pages before being murdered by the Nazis in the streets of her hometown of Przemysl, Poland.

Published earlier this year after being locked away for decades, Renia’s Diary: A Holocaust Journal provides the inspiration for Broken Dreams, Tomasz Magierski’s deeply moving documentary about Renia and her younger sister Ariana, who survived the war and narrates the story onscreen.

As a young girl, the outgoing Ariana was a natural performer, regaling her friends and family members with poetry recitals and song.

Her mother encouraged her to go into show business, and it wasn’t long before 9-year-old Ariana was performing professionally onstage and in Polish films. Her ebullience and singing and dancing abilities led to her being referred to as the “Polish Shirley Temple.” &n