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Art, Diary, Journal, Links, Other People's Notebooks, Sketchbook

Notebook Page from a Japanese Internment Camp

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I spotted this in the New York Times Magazine of November 17, 2019. It is one of the saddest, most infuriating, most shameful notebook pages I’ve featured, as it was drawn by a young man who was incarcerated in a Japanese internment camp during World War II, and then ended up serving in the military … Continue reading Notebook Page from a Japanese Internment Camp →

Diary, Journal, Links, Other People's Notebooks, record-keeping

Zuzana Justman’s Terezín Diary

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A very powerful article from the September 16, 2019 New Yorker magazine: My Terezin Diary, by Zuzana Justman. It’s a miracle that the diary and its author both survived the atrocities of the Nazi concentration camps. I kept the diary from December 8, 1943, until March 4, 1944—the first winter of the two years I … Continue reading Zuzana Justman’s Terezín Diary →