Nonna Bannister

Who is Nonna Bannister?

Nonna Lisowskaja Bannister was the Soviet-born American author of The Secret Holocaust Diaries: The Untold Story of Nonna Bannister, a collection of diary entries and memoirs she wrote before, during, and after her time in a World War II German labor camp and kept hidden in a pillow. She kept her diary and her experience during the war a secret from the family she built after emigrating to America until her old age, when she asked that the diary be published after her death. She died in 2004 and the book was published in 2009 with contributions from Denise George and Carolyn Tomlin.