Rutka Laskier wrote the 60-page diary over a four-month period in Bedzin, Poland.(File Photo)

    BEIJING, June 6 (Xinhuanet) -- A diary of a young Jewish girl dubbed the "Polish Anne Frank" was published on Monday by Israel's Holocaust museum, media reported on Wednesday.

    The diary was written by Rutka Laskier in 1943 shortly before she was deported to Auschwitz.

    Laskier, 14, the same age as the Dutch teenager Anne Frank, recorded what is both a daily account of the horrors of the Holocaust in Bedzin, Poland and a memoir of the life of a teenager in extraordinary circumstances.

The last entry is dated April 24 1943, at which point she hid the notebook in the basement of the house her family was living in, a building that had been confiscated by the Nazis to be part of the Bedzin ghetto.

In August that year, the teenager and her family were transported to the Auschwitz concentration camp and it is thought she was killed immediately.

    Rutka's father, Yaakov, was the only member of the family to survive the camp. He moved to Israel and had a new family. He died in 1986.

Anne Frank's Holocaust diary has become one of the most widely read books in the world.

Some 6 million Jews were killed by the Nazis during World War II, after European Jews were herded into ghettos, banned from most jobs and forced to wear yellow stars to identify them.

(Agencies)