Philip Mechanicus (nonfiction)

Philip Mechanicus was a journalist in the Netherlands under the German occupation during World War 2.

Mechanicus was arrested in September 1942 for not wearing a Star of David on a tram, and sent to Westerbork, a transit camp in the northeast Netherlands where many Jews were brought. Most were then sent on to Nazi concentration and extermination camps farther east in Poland, Germany and Austria.

His diary, published in English in 1968, documented camp life with precision. He often spoke of the transports, which left every Tuesday, carrying 1,000 to 3,000 people, to even harsher fates.

• Dutch War Diaries @ NY Times

Fiction cross-reference

• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Philip Mechanicus (nonfiction)
• War (nonfiction)
• War Diaries (nonfiction)

External links

• Dutch War Diaries @ NY Times