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Name: 1942 – Allies issue joint declaration against extermination of the Jews
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November 30

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1939 – Winter War begins; Soviet Union attacks Finland

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December 4

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1951 – Thomas Buergenthal arrives in U.S.

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December 6

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1901 – Odd Nansen was born.

December 7

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1941 – Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

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December 9

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1907 – Odd Nansen’s mother Eva dies (age 49)

December 10

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1922 – Odd Nansen’s father Fridtjof Nansen receives Nobel Peace Prize

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December 16

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1944 – Battle of the Bulge: Hitler launches Ardennes offensive

December 17

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1942 – Allies issue joint declaration against extermination of the Jews

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1858 – Odd Nansen’s mother, Eva Sars was born.

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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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1939 – Winter War begins; Soviet Union attacks Finland

1951 – Thomas Buergenthal arrives in U.S.

1901 – Odd Nansen was born.

1941 – Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

1907 – Odd Nansen’s mother Eva dies (age 49)

1922 – Odd Nansen’s father Fridtjof Nansen receives Nobel Peace Prize

1944 – Battle of the Bulge: Hitler launches Ardennes offensive

1942 – Allies issue joint declaration against extermination of the Jews

1858 – Odd Nansen’s mother, Eva Sars was born.

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