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Name: 1903 – George Orwell is born
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June 2025
1941 – Grini Camp opened as a Polizeihäftlingslager

June 12, 2025 On this day in 1941

Grini Camp opened as a Polizeihäftlingslager
1929 – Anne Frank is born

June 12, 2025 On this day in 1929

Anne Frank is born
1941 – Grini Camp opened as a Polizeihäftlingslager

June 12, 2025 On this day in 1941

Grini Camp opened as a Polizeihäftlingslager
On this day in 1944

June 13, 2025 On this day in 1944

Germans launch new V-1 rockets against Great Britain
1944 – Germans launch new V-1 rockets against Great Britain

June 13, 2025 On this day in 1944

Germans launch new V-1 rockets against Great Britain
1896 – Fridtjof Nansen encounters Frederick Jackson on Franz Josef Land

June 17, 2025 On this day in 1896

Fridtjof Nansen encounters Frederick Jackson on Franz Josef Land
On this day in 1931

June 18, 2025 On this day in 1931

Odd Nansen’s son Eigil Nansen was born
1931 – Odd Nansen’s son Eigil Nansen was born

June 18, 2025 On this day in 1931

Odd Nansen’s son Eigil Nansen was born
On this day in 1941

June 22, 2025 On this day in 1941

Operation Barbarossa: Hitler invades Russia
1941 – Operation Barbarossa: Hitler invades Russia

June 22, 2025 On this day in 1941

Operation Barbarossa: Hitler invades Russia
1893 – The Fram departs Christiana (Oslo) Norway, for the North Pole

June 24, 2025 On this day in 1893

The Fram departs Christiana (Oslo) Norway, for the North Pole
1903 – George Orwell is born

June 25, 2025 On this day in 1903

George Orwell is born

From Day to Day: One Man’s Diary of Survival in Nazi Concentration Camps

“I want to thank Tim Boyce for this . . . . It would be lost to history if people like Tim Boyce did not devote the effort and time and expense–a good part of his life–to preserve the Odd Nansen story. It is a moving and gripping story. . . .”

–U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal

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 political prisoner. Arrested in January 1942, Nansen, son of polar explorer and humanitarian Fridtjof Nansen (Nobel Peace Prize 1922) was held captive for the duration of the war in various Nazi camps in Norway and Germany.

Nansen’s diary entries detail his palpable longing for his wife and family, his constantly frustrated hopes for release, the quiet strength and sometimes ugly prejudices of his fellow prisoners, and his horror at the especially barbaric treatment reserved for the Jews. The diary brilliantly illuminates Nansen’s daily struggle, not only to survive, but to preserve his sanity and maintain his humanity in a world engulfed by fear and hate.

First published in English in 1949, From Day to Day had been out of print for almost seventy years. The new edition contains entries and sketches never previously available in English. It also features a new introduction and extensive annotations by Timothy Boyce and a preface by Thomas Buergenthal, whose life (as a ten year-old) Nansen saved while in Sachsenhausen, later recounted in his own memoir A Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy.

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June 2025

From Day to Day: One Man’s Diary of Survival in Nazi Concentration Camps