(WTNH)–In 2010, Timothy Boyce, an attorney from North Carolina, was reading a memoir about one of the youngest survivors of a Nazi concentration camp. In that book were details about the man who saved his life, and his name was Odd Nansen.
Boyce learned that Nansen, a Norweigan, had kept a diary which spanned his three and a half years in captivity, the hardships and the deaths. His diary was published 60 years ago, after being smuggled out in a prisoner breadboard that had been hollowed out.
Boyce wanted to find that diary. He located just one copy in the U.S., and after reading it, he was compelled to let the world know about this courageous man. That diary is back in Boyce’s book called “From Day to Day.”
“The thought kept occurring to me, how can a book that I’m finding to be one of the most powerful books I’ve ever read, so eloquent, so cinematic and his descriptions of these scenes, not be in print?” Boyce said. “This thing is a masterpiece. Before I got to the end of it, I said to myself, I don’t know how I’m going to do this, since I am just an attorney, I’m not in the publishing world. I’m going to figure out how to get this book back in print if it takes me forever.”
All of the proceeds from this fascinating book will be split evenly between the U.S. Holocaust Museum in Washington and the Jewish Museum in Oslo, Norway. You can find the book at TimothyJBoyce.com.
