![Close-up portrait of Miriam Wattenberg (Mary Berg). [LCID: 75308]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/3400366f-0520-4606-8a51-31ead13ed382.jpg)
Close-up portrait of Miriam Wattenberg (Mary Berg). Because Mary's mother was American, she and her family were sent from the Warsaw ghetto to Vittel in to be held for possible prisoner exchange. Her diary became the first wartime published eyewitness account in English of life in the Warsaw ghetto and the deportation of its inhabitants to be murdered at Treblinka.
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