Name: 1942 – Doolittle Raid on Japan
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1990 – Soviet Union officially accepts responsibility for Katyn Massacre (5,000 Polish military officers murdered and buried in mass graves in the Katyn Forest).

April 12, 2025 1990 – Soviet Union officially accepts responsibility for Katyn Massacre (5,000 Polish military officers murdered and buried in mass graves in the Katyn Forest).

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

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“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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1945 – Ohrdruf liberated by U.S. Forces

1917 – U.S. officially enters World War I

1895 – Fridtjof Nansen reaches farthest north

1940 – German invasion of Norway

1987 – Primo Levi dies, age 67

1933 – Odd Nansen’s daughter Siri Nansen was born

1945 – President Franklin Delano Roosevelt dies, age 63

1990 – Soviet Union officially accepts responsibility for Katyn Massacre (5,000 Polish military officers murdered and buried in mass graves in the Katyn Forest).

1861 – Ft. Sumter, South Carolina, fired upon, launching the Civil War

1943 – Katyn Massacre graves discovered

1945 – Bergen-Belsen is liberated

1942 – Doolittle Raid on Japan

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