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A mesmerizing story, steeped in danger but hedged by hope. It is a story of resilience and survival ... In jottings full of accomplishment, frustration and longing, details of everyday life are closely and wonderfully observed. They evoke the atmosphere of pre-war eastern Europe, the aura of a time detached, a time of waiting, suspended, for events to unfold, a time of entrapment and delayed expectation. They recall, too, the radiance of Hanna's time with Hans, before history intervened. The London Free Press

Hanna's Diary, 1938-1941 helps us understand how and why European Jews did not see what was coming, why they did not all immediately try to get out, why so much of what subsequently happened was, in 1938 and 1939, simply inconceivable. Jennifer Levine, Literary Studies, Victoria College, University of Toronto This is a unique, complete story of a citizen of this century told without varnish but also without self-pity or resentment. It is told in a simple but powerful way - and it is one that Canadians who wish to know the social history of the last century should be eager to read. B.B. Kymlicka, dean emeritus of social science, University of Western Ontario A pleasure to read. The discreet record of self-denial, of sacrifices readily made for a young composer and his art, may surprise older readers and leave younger ones wondering about what they have gained and lost by their liberation. Erich J. Hahn, Department of History, The University of Western Ontario

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