fractured country'
Joseph Berger, author of Elie Wiesel: Confronting the Silence'
The Diary Keepers is an astonishing, essential book that asks us to bear witness to an unbearable history, even as it invites us to think hard about what history is-how it gets written, and what stories it tells. This book is powerfully moving and necessarily terrifying. By way of rigorous research and intimate storytelling, Nina Siegal brings us close to her diary keepers-making it impossible to turn away from the difficult, necessary questions their lives raise about survival, suffering, complicity, and memory'
Leslie Jamison, author of The Empathy Exams'Like an archaeologist excavating an ancient temple, Nina Siegal has dug up hundreds of stories of life under the unprecedented horror of Nazism, revealing the changing thoughts and shifting moods of heroes, villains, and victims. Until now, we only had a black-and-white image of these lives. Now, thanks to Siegal, we see them in living color'
Benjamin Moser, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Sontag'This moving and masterful book tells the history of those fateful war years, and their aftermath, in a wonderfully intimate way'
Margot Livesey, author of The Boy in the Field
