Independent scholar Diana Mara Henry (Brandeis MA 2000, Harvard B.A. 1969, Ferguson History Prize, 1967) since 1985 has translated and researched the memoirs, assembled a pioneering bibliography, and corresponded with survivors of the KLNa, creating exhibits and translating their work. In 2004 she created www.natzweiler-struthof.com and in 2006, www.callmeandre.com  Her video interview of Philip Maisel is at the USHMM. She has been published in the Journal for Ecumenical Studies, Fall, 2011, and reviewed Cooke and Shepherd's Resistance in the Second World War for the Journal of Military History, April, 2015; been invited to present at conferences and symposia at the University of Salzburg, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, The Genocide Studies Progam of Yale University, German Studies Association Summer Workshop at the Freie Universität of Berlin, Birkbeck University of London, Monash University, The 9/11 Memorial and Museum, and others.

Diana Mara Henry grew up speaking French and attended the Lycée Français de NY. Her concentration at university was in Government; she was an editor at the Harvard Crimson. Diana has devoted her professional life to social causes and political movements. Her first great accomplishment was in photojournalism.

After her initial visit to concentration camp Natzweiler/KLNa, her work focused on the camp and its political prisoners. André Joseph Scheinmann and Diana worked together to create this final version of his memoirs. After he was gone, she discovered much of his past that remained in the shadows. That story came to light when the family vault yielded a treasure trove - the letters that he kept for the honor of his comrades in the struggle. She has been invited to present at academic conferences around the world to speak about Natzweiler and about André, but she came to know him best through her work on this book. 

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