Investigates the reactions of five important Polish diarists-writers - Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz, Maria Dabrowska, Aurelia Wylezynska, Zofia Nalkowska, and Stanislaw Rembek - during the period when the Nazis persecuted and murdered Warsaw's Jewish population. This volume examines the extent to which ideologies of humanism and nationalism informed the diarists' perceptions.