Name: 1927 – Odd Nansen marries Kari Hirsch; later in 1927 they move to America
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1947 – Thor Heyerdahl and Kon-Tiki complete a 4,300 mile, 101 day, raft trip from South America to Polynesia

August 7 1947 – Thor Heyerdahl and Kon-Tiki complete a 4,300 mile, 101 day, raft trip from South America to Polynesia

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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1944 – Anne Frank and seven others arrested in their secret annex

1912 – Swedish diplomat and humanitarian Raoul Wallenberg is born

1942 – Nansen sent to Veidal Camp (Kvaenangen) to work on snow tunnels

1945 – Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima

1947 – Thor Heyerdahl and Kon-Tiki complete a 4,300 mile, 101 day, raft trip from South America to Polynesia

1942 – Marines land at Guadalcanal

1945 – Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki

1940 – The Battle of Britain begins

1941 – The Atlantic Charter is made public

1945 – Japan surrenders

1980 – Otto Frank dies

1927 – Odd Nansen marries Kari Hirsch; later in 1927 they move to America

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