about the diary Rywka Lipszyc Lodz ghetto the book the search resources The Discovery of the Diary In the spring of 1945, a doctor with the liberating Red Army plucked a diary from the ruins of the crematoria at Auschwitz-Birkenau. The physician, Zinaida Berezovskaya , a fierce Soviet patriot and committed Communist, had left her husband and son to fight the great battle against the invading Nazi army and had accompanied Soviet Army troops to Auschwitz. Zinaida took the diary with her when she returned to her home in Omsk, in southwestern Siberia, where she and the diary remained until her death in 1983. Her effects were sent to her son, Ghen Shangin-Berezovsky, who lived in Moscow. Upon his death in 1992, Ghen's belongings went to his wife, Lilavati Ramayya. It was at her mother's house in Moscow that Ghen's daughter, Anastasia Berezovskaya (granddaughter of Zinaida), first encountered the diary on a visit in 1995. Immediately sensing its value and
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