Based on select writings from a collection of more than two thousand Dutch diaries written during World War II in order to record this unparalleled time, and maintained by devoted archivists, The Diary Keepers illuminates a part of history we haven’t seen in quite this way before, from the stories of a Nazi sympathizing police officer to a Jewish journalist who documented daily activities at a transport camp.
An extraordinary story about a Jewish woman who pretended to be Catholic to survive the Holocaust
by Lília Surrounded by chocolate and tea, our Luke and Iris talked books on this month’s ABC Staff Picks livestream on YouTube. This time around, they (with a little help from their ABC friends) pointed us to fantasy, science fiction, some artistic and non-artistic self-help tomes, and a history book with [...]
by Lauren The United States: A Union in Turmoil With the US Supreme Court handing down recent decisions overturning a woman’s right to abortion (Roe v. Wade) and making it harder to regulate climate change while easier to carry guns, America’s hot-button issues are once again at the fore, deeply dividing [...]
