The diary cov­ers the pe­riod of two years and seven months. It con­sists of three oc­tavo note­books: The first entry in note­book 1 was made be­tween March 6 and March 11, 1943 (un­dated); Note­book 2 be­gins with a note dated No­vem­ber 15, 1943; Note­book 3 starts on Au­gust 1, 1945 and ends with an entry dated No­vem­ber 8, 1945. In ad­di­tion to the en­tries, the note­books also con­tain notes and poems that were tran­scribed as well. As far as pos­si­ble, the tran­scrip­tions are true to the orig­i­nal; any changes, ad­di­tions, or ed­i­to­r­ial notes are marked as such. Foot­notes that al­ready exist in the print edi­tion are shown as (i)-​buttons; newly added notes by the In­sti­tute for the His­tory of Ger­man Jews that re­flect the lat­est state of re­search are marked as end­notes. The tran­scribed text is also put side by side with the dig­i­tal fac­sim­ile. More de­tailed in­for­ma­tion about the edi­tion guide­lines can be found here.

The ed­i­tor is Dr. Bar­bara Müller-​Wesemann; re­spon­si­ble for the new edi­tion and edit­ing of the dig­i­tal edi­tion: In­sti­tute for the His­tory of Ger­man Jews, ad­di­tional ed­i­tors: Dr. Sonja Dickow-​Rotter, Dr. Anna Menny; tech­ni­cal re­al­iza­tion: Daniel Bur­ck­hardt, trans­la­tion: Dr. Erwin Fink. We would like to thank the Ham­burg State Agency for Civic Ed­u­ca­tion Lan­deszen­trale für Poli­tis­che Bil­dung Ham­burg for its fi­nan­cial sup­port.