Marta's Notebooks

<p>Marta dreamed of an extraordinary life: she wanted to conquer the world, she wanted to write. But the Second World War and Holocaust destroyed everything. <i>Marta''s Notebooks</i> tells the story of the one thing Marta wrote, decades after the war, when she was hospitalized in a psychiatric ward and suffering from deep depression. A close relationship developed between Marta and her psychiatrist, leading her to write her story: her poignant memoir, an intimate and historical document, is a testimony to a woman’s life and a place that was destroyed.</p><p><i>Marta’s Notebooks</i> brings together three components: an authentic memoir written by Marta Wollner, a Holocaust survivor; a literary, fictive biography based on this diary; and an auto-fiction novella, the confession of her daughter reflecting on the profound impact of her mother’s trauma on her own life. Providing a unique approach to telling a survival story, <i>Marta''s Notebooks</i> is a testament to the complex wounds trauma leaves behind.</p>