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Thanks to TikTok, a Jewish teen’s description of New York in 1945 now has a contemporary audience

(New York Jewish Week) — On an April Saturday in 1945, a Jewish teen living in East New York named Charlotte Buchsbaum washed her hair with lemon. “It looked nice,” she wrote in her diary. The following day, the 15-year-old Brooklynite went to a bar mitzvah at The Rainbow Room, where there was an “effective ceremony” followed by dinner and dancing. Two weeks later, she was at school when a loudspeaker announced that “hostilities have ceased in Germany and all Europe.” These musings by a Jewish high schooler, which reflect happenings both highly personal and historically significant, have recently found a contemporary audience of millions.

 

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