David Koker
The diary was first published in 1977, with the name Dagboek geschreven in Vught (Diary written in Vught). The editor was Karel van het Reve, Koker's best friend, a professor of Slavic languages and literature. Karel collected and edited the smuggled diary fragments. The manuscript was stored at the Dutch Institute for War Documentation (NIOD). It had been translated to English and was published in 2012, under the title: At the Edge of the Abyss: A Concentration Camp Diary, 1943-1944. Koker's diary was in finalist for the Jewish Book Award in the Holocaust category in 2012.