diaries

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Traces of Guler's lifelong devotion to cinema can even be found in his teenage diaries from the late 1940s and 1950s, according to Temel Yilmaz, conservator and archive researcher.

From Barron's • May 10, 2026

"In his high school diaries, we keep seeing the same line over and over again: 'I didn't go to school today,'" he said with a smile.

From Barron's • May 10, 2026

When Elliott Mossman compiled and translated that correspondence in 1981, his annotations relied on Freidenberg’s recently discovered and voluminous diaries.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

Mendes-Flohr builds his portrait from intimate materials: Rosenzweig’s diaries; interviews with Rosenzweig’s son, Rafael, and some surviving members of Rosenzweig’s circle; and, most striking, more than 1,000 letters Rosenzweig wrote to Margrit.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026

We also have seen how two diaries written during different time frames, one being Anne Frank’s and the other Zlata Filipovic’s, were both screaming out the hardships of a war.

From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers