Remembering Odd Nansen on his 114th birthday (December 6, 1901). Nansen can be described in many ways—man of character, humanitarian, architect, writer. In my Introduction to the forthcoming edition of “From Day to Day: One Man’s Diary of Survival in Nazi Concentration Camps” I use the words Primo Levi wrote to describe his friend Alberto Dalla Volta, whom Levi credits with saving his life in Auschwitz: “I always saw, and still see in him, the rare figure of the strong yet peace-loving man against whom the weapons of night are blunted.”