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Sala Kirschner, 94, Whose Trove of Letters Told of the Holocaust, Dies

For 50 years, she kept secret a cache of letters she had squirreled away from Nazi guards. The collection later inspired a book and a play.

www.nytimes.com|Joseph Berger

Sala Kirschner, right, in 1941 with Ala Gartner, whom Mrs. Kirschner described in her diary as her “guardian angel.” Ms. Gartner was later hanged at Auschwitz for her part in an uprising.