ABSTRACT
The material includes similarities of reactions to the war, in a wide range comprising determination to resist as well as a deep sense of disturbance. What emerges is an intertwining between various levels of consciousness on the one hand and choices of the style of transmission on the other. The War Diaries show a variety of forms of resistance: resistance to writing and writing as resistance; ways of counting the passing of time, day by day, week by week; and laughing as well as crying. Dreams add to these reactions the memory of music and the scenes it evokes; and the vision of happy moments in the past as well as nightmares about a dramatic present.
