India, Nov. 7 -- In the summer of 1942, at the height of the Holocaust, mass roundups and deportations of Jews were documented by diarists across Nazi-occupied Europe. The detailed entries from this period capture the horror, uncertainty, and daily struggles faced by Jewish people as the systematic process of extermination accelerated. Ghetto diaries describing life in Vilna, Lvov, Bialystok, Theresienstadt, Kovno, Lodz and Warsaw document human life in a state of spiritual decomposition and moral disintegration under the pressure of survival and the German policy of reprisals. The elderly died in the streets, children were orphaned, food supplies diminished, wealthy Jews turned in a matter of weeks into paupers, people sank into madness,...