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The Woman Who Kept a Record of Atrocity (Etty Hillesum, Netherlands)

Etty Hillesum's diary began as a young woman's private practice and became a record the Nazi system couldn't control. Witness begins on the page.

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A ten-year-old's diary from besieged Sarajevo reached the world before she did. A child's record can punch through propaganda.

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In 1963, one monk's protest and one photograph made the world look. Legitimacy breaks when cruelty becomes visible.

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Margaret Bourke-White walked into Buchenwald with only a camera and refused to look away. What she showed still echoes.

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She was thirteen when she reached Auschwitz. John retells Livia Bitton-Jackson's survival on the 80th anniversary of the camp's liberation.