Book review: Nina Siegal's The Diary Keepers presents readers with translated excerpts from journals penned principally by seven Dutch diarists, tracking their lives as the five-year German occupation unfolded.
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The horrors inflicted upon Dutch Jews during the Holocaust were staggeringly evil, nothing short of genocidal. In her riveting book, The Diary Keepers, Nina Siegal lets the people who lived through the darkest period in modern Dutch history tell their own stories as she artfully weaves together in chronological and logical order selected excerpts from nine diaries, collected from more than 2,000 diaries written during the war.
Some Were Written in Worn School Notebooks, or Beautifully Illustrated With Drawings, Maps, and Watercolors. Each Was a Voice That Wanted to Speak, a World of Memory I Wanted to Grasp and Pull Out of the Darkness of the Archives Folders and Into the Modern World