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Siegal, Nina, 1969-
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Netherlands -- Personal narratives.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Dutch.
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Siegal, Nina, 1969-
World War, 1939-1945 -- Netherlands -- Personal narratives.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Dutch.
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The
diary
keepers
:
World
War
II
in the
Netherlands
, as
written
by the
people
who
lived
through
it / Nina Siegal.
by
Siegal, Nina, 1969-
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2023.
Call #:
940.5481492 S571d
Subjects
World
War
, 1939-1945 --
Netherlands
-- Personal narratives.
World
War
, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Dutch.
ISBN:
9780063070653 (hc)
Alternate title:
World
War
II
in the
Netherlands
, as
written
by the
people
who
lived
through
it
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
527 p., 8 leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 483-501) and index.
Summary:
"A riveting look at the story of
World
War
II
and the Holocaust
through
the diaries of Dutch citizens, firsthand accounts of ordinary
people
living
through
extraordinary times. Based on select writings from a collection of more than two thousand Dutch diaries
written
during
World
War
II
in order to record this unparalleled time, and maintained by devoted archivists, The
Diary
Keepers
illuminates a part of history we haven’t seen in quite this way before, from the stories of a Nazi sympathizing police officer to a Jewish journalist
who
documented daily activities at a transport camp. Journalist Nina Siegal,
who
grew up in a family that had survived the Holocaust in Europe, had always wondered about the experience of regular
people
during
World
War
II
. She had heard stories of the
war
as a child and Anne Frank’s
diary
, but the tales were either crafted as moral lessons -- to never waste food, to be grateful for all you receive, to hide your silver -- or told with a punch line. The details of the past went untold in an effort to make it easier assimilate into American life. When Siegal moved to Amsterdam as an adult, those questions came up again, as did another horrifying Why did seventy five percent of the Dutch Jewish community perish in the
war
, while in other Western European countries the proportions were significantly lower? How did this square with the narratives of Dutch resistance she had heard so much about and in what way did it relate to the famed tolerance
people
in the
Netherlands
were always talking about? Perhaps more importantly, how could she raise a Jewish child in this country without knowing these answers? Searching and singular, The
Diary
Keepers
mines the diaries of ordinary citizens to understand the nature of resistance, the workings of memory, and the ways we reflect on, commemorate, and re-envision the past."--Publisher.
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