Diary of Edgars Reinsons from Bilskēni, born in 1927, written from 6 November 1944, when he began his training in Eger (now Heves) in Sudeti, until his arrival in Canada on 11 November 1947.

Edgars Reinsons began writing his diary when, at the age of 17 in 1944, he was drafted into the German Air Force as an assistant. Edgars ends up at an infirmary in southern Germany, where he also experiences the end of the war. In an interview on Midsummer 2010, he says that he wasn’t particularly sick, and allows for the possibility that the nurses to deliberately delayed discharging him from the hospital, so that he, a young boy, should not have to go to the front.

The laconic diary entries were made every few days, and sometimes a week or even months apart.

After the war ended Edgar travelled to Canada and worked in the gold mines. Later moved to Toronto.