Name: 1945 – The U.S.S. Indianapolis is sunk by Japanese submarine I-58; only 316 crewmen, out of a total complement of 1,195, survive
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1944 – The Warsaw Uprising begins

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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1919 – The Treaty of Versailles, ending World War I, is signed

1914 – Archduke Ferdinand is Assassinated, Setting off World War One

1942 – The crucial battle of El Alamein begins

1942 – Anne Frank goes into hiding in Amsterdam

1942 – Medical experiments begin in Auschwitz

1944 – Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg arrives in Budapest, Hungary

1916 – Hiltgunt Zassenhaus born in Hamburg, Germany

1940 – The Battle of Britain begins

2000 – Jan Karski, Polish soldier, resistance-fighter, and diplomat, dies, age 86

1942 – French police conduct La Grande Rafle (the Great Roundup); over 12,000 Jews arrested, including over 4,000 children

1969 – U.S. lands a man on the moon.

1944 – Hitler narrowly escapes assassination

1942 – Deportations from Warsaw Ghetto to Treblinka begin; 250,000 Jews murdered within seven weeks.

1943 – Mussolini deposed

1914 – World War I begins

1943 – Polish courier Jan Karski meets with President Roosevelt to reveal first-hand knowledge of the Holocaust

1945 – The U.S.S. Indianapolis is sunk by Japanese submarine I-58; only 316 crewmen, out of a total complement of 1,195, survive

1944 – Anne Frank writes her final diary entry

1944 – The Warsaw Uprising begins

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