![]() ![]() ![]() His book was published after his return to Norway. As his diary was written to his wife, Nansen must have concealed much of the truth of what he experienced and saw. each page of which was spirited out of those camps to his wife in Oslo. Nansen managed to keep an almost daily diary. and later, at Sachsenhausen, the notorious German Concentration Camp north of Berlin. Compared to some concentration camp inmates, he was an "Aryan", and the son of Fridtjof Nansen, world famous Arctic explorer (and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize), Odd Nansen was somewhat privileged during his internment at prison camps in Grini, near Oslo, at Veidal, north of the Arctic Circle. ![]() Nansen, of course, wasn't Jewish, but he was arrested at his home in Norway, when it became known that he had helped German Jews escape Germany. ![]() and as a worker at the Phllips Electronic Corporation workshop. Koker managed to make a life in what eventually became a transit camp, by becoming "useful', both as a teacher of the children in the camp. Koker's long after his death on the way from Auschwitz to Dachau, near the end of the war, but primarily composed during his interment at Konzentrationslager Herzogenbush, located near a small Dutch village called Vught. composed as diary entries sent surreptitiously to friends in Holland, and altogether different from cousin Odd Nansen's book: From Day To Day: One Man's Diary of Survival in Nazi Concentration Camps. So different from David Koker's 400 page At The Edge of the Abyss: A Concentration Camp Diary, 1943-1944. ![]()
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