At the Edge of the Abyss : A Concentration Camp Diary, 1943-1944
ISBN: 9780810126367 | 0810126362
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Northwestern Univ Pr
Pub. Date: 3/29/2012
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David Koker's diary is one of the most notable accounts of life in a German concentration camp written by a Jew during the years of the Holocaust. First brought to attention when the Dutch historian Jacob Presser-Koker's history teacher in high school-quoted from Koker's diary in his monumental history, published in English as The Destruction of the Dutch Jews (1968), the diary itself became a part of the Dutch literary canon when it was published in 1977 as Dagboek geschreven in Vught (Diary Written in Vught). It has remained in print ever sin... MORE
| Preface and Acknowledgments | p. vii |
| Introduction: David Koker and His Diary | p. 3 |
| David Koker's Diary written in Vught | |
| Winter (February 11, 1943-March 20, 1943) | p. 77 |
| Spring (March 21,1943-June 19,1943) | p. 148 |
| Summer (June 29, 1943-September 1, 1943) | p. 216 |
| Fall (September 24,1943-December 16, 1943) | p. 260 |
| Winter (December 22, 1943-February 8,1944) | p.... MORE |
| Epilogue: The Final Year | p. 336 |
| Biographical Notes | p. 351 |
| Bibliography | p. 385 |
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