Growing up in a family that had survived the Holocaust, Nina Siegal had heard tales that were either crafted as moral lessons or told with a punch line. Moving to Amsterdam as an adult, Siegal had lingering questions about that era, and so she compiled primary sources. Gathered from a collection of 2,000 Dutch diaries written during the war, this anthology includes the stories of a Nazi sympathizing police officer, and a Jewish journalist who documented daily activities at a transport camp.