The Diary Keepers: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times, World War II in the Netherlands written by the People Who Lived Through It - Nina Siegal zipper THE SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK

THE SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR

It's a time not only to remember the past but also to make the Seder experience relevant

having endured a perilous journey to reach England – hiding from the rampaging Nazi thugs at his orphanage

But his journey is a tumultuous one and the consequences of his choices will resound for generations

This is his account of that atrocity: the ever-increasing horrors he endured

The Diary Keepers: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times, World War II in the Netherlands written by the People Who Lived Through It - Nina Siegal zipper THE SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOKBased on select writings from an exceptional Amsterdam archive containing more than two thousand Dutch diaries from World War II, The Diary Keepers illuminates a part of history we havent seen in quite this way before. Nina Siegal, an accomplished journalist and novelist, weaves together excerpts from the daily journals of collaborators, resistors, and the persecuted a Dutch Nazi police detective, a Jewish journalist imprisoned at Westerbork transit