I forget how I came across this very poignant notebook. It is a diary belonging to Peter Feigl, a 13-year old Austrian Jewish refugee in Vichy France.

…Peter wrote about the traumatic events he had just experienced in his diary. His parents were first taken to an internment camp at Le Vernet, and the diary that Peter started keeping was written and addressed to his parents. Peter saw the diary as a way to maintain ties with his family, tragically separated by the cruel events of the summer. Peter documented his daily life—as well as his fears and his despair at the disappearance of his parents.

This is part of a collection of Holocaust diaries at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Read more at Experiencing History: Holocaust Sources in Context: Diary of Peter Feigl.