The Holocaust. Black Pages. Diaries of Victims and Executioners

What do people feel when their neighbors suddenly "disappear"? How does the resolve to help those who are threatened with death arise in the human heart, even at personal risk? Where does a husband find hope when the Gestapo has taken his wife?
"Black Pages" is a new perspective on the history of the Holocaust.
The work of Nina Siegal allows us to hear the personal stories of ordinary people who went through extraordinary and terrifying times. For the author of "Black Pages," the tragedy of European Jewry is a part of her family's past. Growing up in a family of Holocaust victims, Siegal has been interested since childhood in the experiences of those who faced the horrors of Nazism.
The book is based on a unique collection of more than 2000 diaries of citizens of the Netherlands who survived the fascist occupation.

“Like an archaeologist uncovering an ancient temple, Nina Siegal has unearthed hundreds of life stories in the context of the unprecedented horrors of Nazism, revealing the changing thoughts and fluctuating moods of the heroes, villains, and victims. Until now, we only had a black-and-white picture of these lives. Now, thanks to Siegal, we see them in vivid color,” - Benjamin Moser, Pulitzer Prize winner, author of the book “Sontag”