Mirjam Bolle (nonfiction)

Mirjam Bolle was a Dutch citizen who kept a diary during the Second World War.

Bolle lived in Amsterdam, and wrote at a time when conditions were particularly gruesome for Dutch Jews. Because the sick were among the first to be carted off in transports to concentration camps, people who were ill often piled into the homes of able-bodied relatives, creating cramped households.

Bolle discusses the many people her family is attempting to house in this excerpt from her diary of letters to her fiancé that she wrote but never mailed. They were published in English in a book, “Letters Never Sent” by Yad Vashem in 2014.

War diary

• War Diaries (February 23) (nonfiction)

Fiction cross-reference

• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Mary Cecilia Bailly (nonfiction)
• Winston Churchill (nonfiction)
• Dorothy Pugh (nonfiction)
• War (nonfiction)
• War Diaries (nonfiction)

External links

• Civil War diary entries by Connie McCammon @ swsmw.org (May 9, 2012)
• A unique WWII archive from Churchill’s nurse @ churchillbookcollector.com