THE DIARY KEEPERS : ORDINARY PEOPLE, EXTRAORDINARY TIMES - WORLD WAR II IN THE NETHERLANDS, AS WRITTEN BY THE PEOPLE WHO LIVED THROUGH IT

Name: THE DIARY KEEPERS : ORDINARY PEOPLE, EXTRAORDINARY TIMES - WORLD WAR II IN THE NETHERLANDS, AS WRITTEN BY THE PEOPLE WHO LIVED THROUGH IT
Author: NINA SIEGAL

Por NINA SIEGAL

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Detrás de los muros de un convento, reina el silencio, solo salpicado por el murmullo de las oraciones o los melismas de los cantos litúrgicos. O así es como solemos imaginarlo, pero la realidad es otra. Un espacio creado por mujeres y para mujeres, con otras formas de amar, cuidar, organizarse, crear y convivir. Y, sobre todo, podemos constatar que TODO LO QUE NOS PASA, YA LE PASÓ A UNA MONJA DEL BARROCO.

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Sinopsis

Based 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 haven't 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 camp, a grocery store owner who saved dozens of lives-into a braided nonfictional narrative of the Nazi occupation and the Dutch Holocaust, as individuals experienced it day by day. Siegal provides the context, both historical and personal, while she tries to make sense of her own relationship to this past.