Tim Boyce will speak to us about The Secret WWII Concentration Camp Diary of Odd Nansen, which he edited!
Hailed by The New Yorker as “among the most compelling documents to come out of the war,” From Day to Day is a World War II concentration camp diary—one of only a handful ever translated into English—secretly written by Odd Nansen, a Norwegian. This inspiring diary, illustrated by Nansen, brilliantly illuminates Nansen’s daily struggle, not only to survive, but to preserve his sanity and maintain his humanity.
After having been out of print for over 60 years, Timothy Boyce rescued the diary from oblivion after reading the memoir of another Holocaust survivor, whose life, as a 10-year-old boy, Thomas Buergenthal, was saved by Nansen while both were prisoners in Sachsenhausen.
Through selected readings, Tim will explain who Nansen was, why he was arrested, why he wrote the diary, how he preserved it, and why this diary is as important today as it was when first written.
Odd Nansen could not have hoped for a better and more committed editor than [Timothy Boyce], and he got the best by far. It is simply a magnificent piece of work
Thomas Buergenthal
Author of A Lucky Child
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All book royalties go to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in DC (50%) and HL-Senteret, the Norwegian Center for the Study of Holocaust and Religious Minorities in Oslo (50%). To date, distributions have totaled nearly $40,000.
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More than anything, though, it is his moral outrage at anyone who dares to turn an eye away from the suffering of others—especially when that eye is his own—that makes this a timely reissue. By the end of the war, Nansen is poignantly aware of his entitled situation. The humanism he carries into the last camps finds expression mostly in words, as deeds would have ended in a most unfortunate way for both the man and this priceless chronicle.
From Day to Day breaks once again the heart of humanity—a “never forget” document that echoes with the ghostly voices of the murdered.
Amy Scheibe
Jewish Quarterly, Spring 2016
This extraordinary diary by a non-Jewish victim of the Nazi regime and its collaborators is a rich historical document. Nansen’s stunning illustrations provide a pictorial narrative into the concentration camp world he endured. . . . [H]is text renders his experience in clear, muscular prose. We see through his eyes and imagine what he describes. We follow him day by day, as his diary traverses three and a half years–an eternity at that time . . . . Timothy Boyce’s Introduction frames the diary beautifully, setting the diary years into the larger picture of Nansen’s life, . . . and his extensive editorial notes provide guideposts along the way.
Debórah Dwork
Rose Professor of Holocaust History, Clark University
Director, Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
author of Flight from the Reich
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