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第一次世界大战之后的德国面临承担战争责任和战争赔偿以及迁出非德意志人居住地等问题，经济上陷入困境，民族感情遭受挫折。德国纳粹主义首先把矛头指向国内的犹太人，宣称北欧雅利安-日耳曼人是上苍赋予了“主宰权力”的种族，而犹太人是劣等民族，应予淘汰和灭绝。《我们是见证者》一书即为纳粹主义时期5位孩子见证这一纳粹战争的日记，以孩子的视角记录了这场大屠杀这个国家以及5个家庭各自发生的事。该书英文书写，至今尚未被译入汉语。

本课题将《我们是见证者》一书中的第4章《我想要活下去！》作为翻译实践对象，旨在翻译和研究以日记文体的叙事文特点。该章/日记主人公为伊娃·海曼，作者通过大量的分析举证，将1944年2月13日至1944年10月17日短短八个月的事件清晰地呈现在读者眼前。生为犹太人身份的伊娃，在过完13岁生日后，就开始了一段恶梦般的等待，经历自己的财产被收为国有，目睹自己的亲人一个个被警官带走又回来，后来自己也被带走，胆战心惊地度过了5个月，最终走到了短暂生命旅程的终点。

通过大量的心理描写、对话描写、日记还原，作者将13岁小女孩在纳粹大屠杀期间的生活状态逼真地表现了出来，真切直观地展现了纳粹屠杀的残酷与无情。正如书名所示，读者也成了大屠杀的见证者，伊娃、大卫、摩西、伊扎克和安妮他们过早惨死，但他们的日记将这段历史永久的保存下来，供后人了解这段大屠杀，也供读者研究学习。

INTRODUCTION

After World War I, German was faced with problems of compensating for the war, moving its citizens out of un-Germanic territory, economy crisis and national impotence. Nazi Party directed its spearhead at Jews and claimed that the Aryans was the master race, while Jews were inferior and should be eliminated. We are Witnesses is a book of five children’s diaries that record the Nazi war against Jews. It is in English and has not been translated into Chinese.

Character description and reproduction of children are my great interests, so I chose the 4th chapter—I Want to Live in We are Witnesses -- as the target of translation. The 4th chapter/diary was written by Eva Heyman, in which the author clearly presents the readers all the happenings in eight months from 1944-2-13 to 1944-10-17. Eva experienced nightmarish days after her 13th birthday. Her family’s possessions were confiscated, her families were taken away by police, then she was taken to the ghetto where she met with her young death shortly afterwards.

The author of the book presents the living condition of the 13-year-old little girl during Nazi Holocaust and shows Nazi Party’s brutality and ruthlessness through plenty of psychological description, dialogues and diaries. Readers also become witnesses after reading it. Eva, David, Moshe, Yitzhak and Anne didn’t survive, but their diaries have survived to make us know about the dark part of the history and to reveal to us some traces of human nature.