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Journalist Nina Siegal, who grew up in a family that had survived the Holocaust in Europe, had always wondered about the experience of regular people during World War II. She had heard stories of the war as a child and Anne Frank’s diary, but the tales were either crafted as moral lessons — to never waste food, to be grateful for all you receive, to hide your silver — or told with a punch line. The details of the past went untold in an effort to make it easier assimilate into American life. When Siegal moved to Amsterdam as an adult, those questions came up again, as did another horrifying one: Why did seventy five percent of the Dutch Jewish community perish in the war, while in other Western European countries the proportions were significantly lower? How did this square with the narratives of Dutch resistance she had heard so much about and in what way did it relate to the famed tolerance people in the Netherlands were always talking about? Perhaps more importantly, how could she raise a Jewish child in this country without knowing these answers? Searching and singular, The Diary Keepers mines the diaries of ordinary citizens to understand the nature of resistance, the workings of memory, and the ways we reflect on, commemorate, and re-envision the past.","forthcoming":false,"isbn13":"9780063070653","publication_date":"20230221","publisher":"HarperCollins","slug":"the-diary-keepers","subtitle":"World War II in the Netherlands, As Written by the People Who Lived Through It","title":"The Diary Keepers"},"discovery":{"categories":{"all":[{"bisac_code":"YAN025090","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Holocaust History for Teens","score":0.7943,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"JNF025090","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Holocaust for Kids","score":0.7851,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"YAN047080","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Judaism for Teens","score":0.7835,"source":"bisac_hint_model"}],"hint":[{"bisac_code":"YAN025090","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Holocaust History for Teens","score":0.7943,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"JNF025090","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Holocaust for Kids","score":0.7851,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"YAN047080","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Judaism for Teens","score":0.7835,"source":"bisac_hint_model"}],"publisher":[{"bisac_code":"HIS010020","confidence_band":"high","label":"Western European History","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"HIS022000","confidence_band":"high","label":"Jewish History","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"HIS027030","confidence_band":"high","label":"Nuclear Warfare","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"HIS027100","confidence_band":"high","label":"World War II History","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"HIS027190","confidence_band":"high","label":"Afghan War (2001-)","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"HIS027200","confidence_band":"high","label":"Napoleonic Wars","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"HIS027250","confidence_band":"high","label":"Civil Wars","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"HIS027280","confidence_band":"high","label":"Guerrilla Warfare","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"}]},"genres":[{"label":"Holocaust History for Teens","score":0.7943,"slug":"holocaust-history-for-teens"},{"label":"Holocaust for Kids","score":0.7851,"slug":"holocaust-for-kids"},{"label":"Judaism for Teens","score":0.7835,"slug":"judaism-for-teens"}],"reader_fit":["Good for readers interested in Dutch civilians’ firsthand World War II accounts","Readers exploring Holocaust history through personal diaries"],"related_lists":[],"series":null,"similar_books":[{"authors":["Anne Frank","Otto M. 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