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At the edge of the abyss : a concentration camp diary, 1943-1944 / David Koker ; edited by Robert Jan van Pelt ; translated from the Dutch by Michiel Horn and John Irons.
Van Pelt Library D811 .K573513 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Koker, David, 1921-1945.
- Standardized Title:
- Dagboek geschreven in Vught. English
- Language:
- Dutch
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Koker, David, 1921-.
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Dutch.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Koker, David, 1921-1945--Diaries.
- Koker, David.
- Prisoners of war--Netherlands--Biography.
- Prisoners of war.
- Netherlands.
- Vught (Concentration camp).
- Genre:
- Personal narratives -- Dutch.
- Biographies.
- Diaries.
- Autobiographies.
- Personal narratives.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 396 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, [2012]
- Summary:
- So yesterday the high-ranking visitors came after all. . . . H[immler] at their head. A slight, insignificant-looking little man, with a rather good-humored face. High peaked cap, mustache, and small spectacles. I think: If you wanted to trace back all the misery and horror to just one person, it would have to be him. Around him a lot of fellows with weary faces. Very big, heavily dressed men, they swerve along whichever way he turns, like a swarm of flies, changing places among themselves (they don't stand still for a moment) and moving like a single whole. It makes a fatally alarming impression. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Introduction: David Koker and his diary
- David Koker's diary written in Vught
- Winter (February 11, 1943-March 20, 1943)
- Spring (March 21, 1943-June 19, 1943)
- Summer (June 29, 1943-September 1, 1943)
- Fall (September 24, 1943-December 16, 1943)
- Winter (December 22, 1943-February 8, 1944)
- Epilogue: the final year.
- Notes:
- "Originally published in Dutch by G. A. van Oorschot as Dagboek geschreven in Vught, 1977."
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9780810126367
- 0810126362
- OCLC:
- 709669371
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