The diary keepers World War II in the Netherlands, as written by the people who lived through it
(2023)

Nonfiction

Large Type

Call Numbers:
LARGE TYPE/940.548149/SIEGAL,N

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Large Type LARGE TYPE/940.548149/SIEGAL,N Available

Details

PUBLISHED
Waterville, ME : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2023
EDITION
Large print edition
DESCRIPTION

753 pages (large print), 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9798885789301, 9798885789301
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Prologue: Searching for Emerich -- Introduction: "Vast quantities of this simple, everyday material" -- Part I: Occupation, May 1940-May 1941 -- Part II: Persecution and deportation, April 1942-February 1944 -- Part III: Toward liberation, May 1944-May 1945 -- Part IV: The war in memory, May 1945-May 2022 -- Conclusion: "There were more"

"Based on select writings from a collection of more than two thousand Dutch diaries written during World War II, 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. 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"--