WRITER

Rutka Laskier

1929 - 1943

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Rut "Rutka" Laskier (12 June 1929 – December 1943) was a Jewish Polish diarist who is best known for her 1943 diary chronicling the three months of her life during the Holocaust in Poland. She was murdered at Auschwitz concentration camp in 1943 at the age of fourteen. Her manuscript, authenticated by Yad Vashem, was published in the Polish language in early 2006. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rutka Laskier has received more than 264,216 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Rutka Laskier is the 3,528th most popular writer (down from 3,495th in 2019), the 758th most popular biography from Poland (down from 725th in 2019) and the 86th most popular Polish Writer.

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  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.45

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.84

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Rutka Laskier ranks 3,528 out of 7,302. Before her are Arator, Sara Teasdale, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Nikolay Ogarev, Helena Roerich, and Ryōtarō Shiba. After her are Laza Lazarević, Tsubouchi Shōyō, Jalal Al-e-Ahmad, Molla Panah Vagif, Kim Stanley Robinson, and Jozef Miloslav Hurban.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Rutka Laskier ranks 255. Before her are June Squibb, Jürgen Ehlers, Fernando Sebastián Aguilar, István Kertész, Adrienne Rich, and Link Wray. After her are Slavko Avsenik, Hermann Prey, Ken McGregor, Harry Frankfurt, Maarten Schmidt, and Barbara Walters. Among people deceased in 1943, Rutka Laskier ranks 129. Before her are Alojs Andritzki, Yemelyan Yaroslavsky, W. S. Van Dyke, Bernhard Lichtenberg, Curt Haase, and Henner Henkel. After her are Harry Baur, Tōson Shimazaki, Richard Sears, Fats Waller, Anita Augspurg, and Henri-Jean Guillaume Martin.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Rutka Laskier ranks 758 out of 1,694. Before her are Rudolf Ramek (1881), Matthias Habich (1940), Martin Gray (1922), Leon Niemczyk (1923), Krystyna Skarbek (1908), and Henner Henkel (1915). After her are Ludwik Rajchman (1881), Max Weber (1881), Carl Schuricht (1880), Kazimierz Sabbat (1913), Leszek Balcerowicz (1947), and Kazimierz Bein (1872).

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Among WRITERS In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, Rutka Laskier ranks 86. Before her are Zofia Posmysz (1923), Stanisław Konarski (1700), Salomėja Nėris (1904), Willibald Alexis (1798), Marcin Bielski (1495), and Martin Gray (1922). After her are Marcin Kromer (1512), Kurd Lasswitz (1848), Duchess Agnes of Württemberg (1835), Tadeusz Konwicki (1926), Zofia Kossak-Szczucka (1889), and Jędrzej Śniadecki (1768).

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