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May 7, 2024

David Koker’s Lyric and Jarring Firsthand Account of Life in a Concentration Camp

The other Dutch Holocaust diarist.

When most people think of the Holocaust diary of a Dutch Jew, they think of Anne Frank. But she was not alone. Yoshua Tolle describes his recent visit to the Vught concentration camp in the southern Netherlands, and the chronicle kept there by a young poet and translator by the name of David Koker:

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