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ublicity still, Carmen Miranda inTe Streets of Paris, 1939.

ourtesy of www.doctormacro.com.

From Day to Dayis unlike any other record of personal

war experience which has yet appeared. There have

been plenty of other accounts of imprisonment

and concentration camps but none by a man like

Mr. Nansen. Writing with no thought of publication,

merely to keep a record for his wife and to express his

own boiling emotions, Mr. Nansen somehow created a

remarkable book. Using stolen paper and stolen time,

always in fear of being caught, he described each days

adventures with stark simplicity and intimate authority

His book, although immensely long, is a continuously

engrossing narrative. It is filled with vivid, concrete

details, sharp character sketches, unspeakable horrors.Orville Prescott, New York Times

Most citizens, one hears, are fed up with books about

the atrocities of the Nazi concentration camps. But

this book is different from all the others this reviewer

has read. True, it does not slur over the unspeakable

barbarities. But it rises above them and reminds us in

never-to-be-forgotten pages how noble and generous

the human spirit can be in the face of terrible adversity.

William L. Shirer, New York He rald-Tribune

The first two-thirds of Day after Daycan only be

compared with Dostoevskys House of the Dead; butcompared with the last third of Hr. Nansens book

The House of the Deadreads like Jane Austen. . . . It

is a masterpiece. . . . The number of men who have

successfully exploited the unique character of the diary

as an art-form can still be counted on the fingers of

one hand.

Times Literary Supplement

From reviews of the 1949 edition:

This extraordinary diary by a non-Jewish victim of the Nazi regime and its

collaborators is a rich historical document. Nansens stunning illustrations

provide a pictorial narrative into the concentration camp world he endured.

Superbly translated by Katherine John, his text renders his experience

in clear, muscular prose. We see through his eyes and imagine what he

describes. We follow him, day by day, as his diary traverses three and a

half yearsan eternity at that timeand moves with him from the

Norwegian camp system, the Norwegian regime, and occupied Norway to

his perspective on the German camp of Sachsenhausen, the Nazi regime in

Germany, and the final disintegration of the Third Reich.

Timothy Boyces introduction frames the diary beautifully, setting the

diary years into the larger picture of Nansens life with just the right bal-

ance between the private and the public. And his extensive editorial notes

provide guideposts along the way.

Debrah Dwork, Rose Professor of Holocaust History, Director, Strassler Center for

Holocaust and Genocide Studies, and author of Flight from the Reich: Refugee Jews,

Above right: Sketch by Odd Nansen. One of the death gangs on the way to theplace of execution, conducted by the AA General.

Below: Sketch by Odd Nansen. Divine service behind the barbed wire at Veidal.

This is one of the most searing contemporaneous accounts of the Holocaust,

but also one of the best written of the great documents of World War II. It

is a profound indictment of evil, a daily diary of torment and torture, yet

also somehow a deeply moving love letter. It should find a place on the

bookshelf of every home, be taught in every school, made into a movie,

and feted for what it says about mans capacity for humanity in the face

of satanic loathsomeness. Mr. Nansens decency and courage in the most

vicious of circumstances shines through on every page; he personifies the

civilization for which the Allies fought.

Andrew Roberts, author of The Storm of War: A New History of the Second

World War; Masters and Commanders: How Four Titans Won the War in the

West, ; and Napoleon: A Life

A long-forgotten masterpiece. In his secret diary, written inside the Nazi

camps, the Norwegian prisoner Odd Nansen paints a deeply affecting

picture of everyday terror, sketching the inmates life and death with

exceptional clarity and compassion. Rarely has the inhumanity of the

camps been captured with such humanity. An invaluable document for

anyone interested in the Nazi camps.

Nikolaus Wachsmann, author of KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps

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n Norwegian Odd Nansen was

arrested by the Nazis, and he spent the

remainder o World War II in concentra-

tion campsGrini in Oslo, Veidal above

the Arctic Circle, and Sachsenhausenin Germany. For three and a hal years,

Nansen kept a secret diary on tissue-paper-

thin pages later smuggled out by various

means, including inside the prisoners

hollowed-out breadboards.

Unlike writers o retrospective Holo-

caust memoirs, Nansen recorded the mun-

dane and horrific details o camp lie as

they happened, rom day to day. With an

unsparing eye, Nansen described the casual

brutality and random terror that was the

ate o a camp prisoner. His entries reveal

his constantly rustrated hopes or an early

end to the war, his longing or his wie

and children, his horror at the especially

barbaric treatment reserved or Jews, and

his disgust at the anti-Semitism o some o

his ellow Norwegians. Nansen ofen con-

ronted his German jailors with unusual

outspokenness and sometimes with a

sense o humor and absurdity that was not

appreciated by his captors.

Afer the Putnams edition receivedrave reviews in , the book ell into

obscurity. In , in response to a poll

about the most undeservedly neglected

book o the preceding quarter-century,

Carl Sandburg singled out From Day to

Day, calling it an epic narrative, which

A dramatic, acutely observed account of three and a half years

of concentration camp life and death as they unfolded

From Day to DayOne Mans Diary of Survival in Nazi Concentration Camps

ODD NANSEN

Edited & annotated by TIMOTHY J. B OYCE Preface by THOMAS BUERGENTHAL

HO L O CA U S T S T U DIES / HU M A N R IG HT S / EU R O PEA N HIS T O R Y

took its place among the great affirma-

tions o the power o the human spirit

to rise above terror, torture, and death.

Indeed, Nansen witnessed all the horrors o

the camps, yet still saw hope or the uture.He sought reconciliation with the German

people, even donating the proceeds o the

German edition o his book to German

reugee relie work. Nansen was ollowing

in the ootsteps o his ather, Fridtjo, an

Arctic explorer and humanitarian who was

awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in or

his work on behal o World War I reu-

gees. (Fridtjo also created the Nansen

passport or stateless persons.)

Tis new edition, the first in over sixty-

five years, contains extensive annotations

and new diary selections never beore

translated into English. Forty sketches

o camp lie and death by Nansen, an

architect and talented drafsman, provide a

sense o immediacy and acute observation

matched by the diary entries. Te preace is

written by Tomas Buergenthal, who was

ommy, the ten-year-old survivor o the

Auschwitz Death March, whom Nansen

met at Sachsenhausen and saved using

his extra ood rations. Buergenthal, wholater served as a judge on the International

Court o Justice at Te Hague, is a recipient

o the Elie Wiesel Award rom the US

Holocaust Memorial Museum.

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