Name: 1950 – George Orwell dies, age 46
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1945 – Tom Buergenthal’s father, Mundek Buergenthal, dies in Ohrdruf-Nord camp, age 43

January 15, 2027 1945 – Tom Buergenthal’s father, Mundek Buergenthal, dies in Ohrdruf-Nord camp, age 43

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.

January 2027

1875 – Albert Schweitzer, Nobel Peace Laureate (1952) and Friend of Odd Nansen, Born

1945 – Tom Buergenthal’s father, Mundek Buergenthal, dies in Ohrdruf-Nord camp, age 43

1945 – Kielce, Poland Recaptured by Soviet Forces

1945 – Hitler enters his underground bunker for the final time

1942 – First Jews from Łodź Ghetto Arrive at Chełmno

1944 – Eisenhower Assumes Duties of Commander in Chief of Allied Expeditionary Forces

1945 – Thomas Buergenthal starts Auschwitz Death March

1945 – Warsaw falls to the Soviets

1943 – Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins.

1945 – Budapest is recaptured by Soviet forces.

1942 – Wannsee Conference to coordinate “the Final Solution to the Jewish problem”

1950 – George Orwell dies, age 46

Events

January 2027

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