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However, when her diary appeared in a book, it was revealed in 2008 that she was not sent to the [[gas chamber]]s along with them. Zofia Minc (later Galler), a fellow prisoner who survived, revealed in a published account of her time at Auschwitz, that Laskier slept in the barrack next to her until falling victim to a [[cholera]] outbreak in December 1943. Another prisoner pushed Laskier, still alive, in a wheelbarrow to an underground gas chamber. According to Zahava Scherz, Israeli-born daughter of Rutka's father by his subsequent marriage,<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00gn734 The Secret Diary of the Holocaust], BBC.co.uk; accessed 20 December 2016.</ref> Rutka begged Zofia to take her to the [[electric fence]] so she could kill herself, but an [[Schutzstaffel|SS]] guard following them would not allow it. Rutka was then taken directly to the crematory.<ref name="Libération">« Dans notre block, je dormais à côté de mon amie, Rutka Laskier, de Bedzin. Elle était tellement belle, que même le Dr Mengele l’avait remarquée. Une épidémie de typhus et de choléra a alors éclaté. Rutka a attrapé le choléra. En quelques heures, elle est devenue méconnaissable. Elle n’était plus qu’une ombre pitoyable. Je l’ai moi-même transportée dans une brouette au crématoire. Elle me suppliait de l’amener jusqu’aux barbelés pour se jeter dessus et mourir électrocutée, mais un SS marchait derrière moi avec un fusil et il ne m’a pas laissé faire. » in "Journal d’outre-tombe" by Nathalie Dubois and Maja Żółtowska, ''[[Libération]]'' (10 March 2008) (French).</ref>
Rutka's father was the only member of the family who survived the Holocaust. Following World War II, he emigrated to [[Israel]], where he remarried and had another daughter, Zahava Scherz. He died in 1986.<ref>[http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_070612k.cfm WPR Interview with Zahava Scherz] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928003444/http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_070612k.cfm |date=2007-09-28 }}, wpr.org; accessed 21 December 2016.</ref> According to Zahava Scherz, interviewed in the BBC documentary ''The Secret Diary of the Holocaust'' (broadcast in January 2009),<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00gn734 BBC One Programmes - The Secret Diary of the Holocaust] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110401125323/http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00gn734|date=1 April 2011}}</ref> he never told Scherz about Rutka until she discovered a photo album when she herself was 14, which contained a picture of Rutka with her younger brother. Scherz asked her father who they were, and he answered her truthfully, but never spoke of it again. She went on to explain that she only learned of the existence of Rutka's diary in 2006, and she expressed how much it has meant to her to be able to get to know her half-sister through Rutka's words.<ref name=YV2007/>
==Diary==
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