My name is Selma the remarkable memoir of a Jewish resistance fighter and Ravensbrück survivor
An international bestseller, this powerful memoir by a 98-year-old Jewish Resistance fighter and Ravensbruck concentration camp survivor shows us how to find hope in hopelessness and light in the darkness (Edith Eger, author of 'The Choice and The Gift').
| Main Author: | Perre, Selma van de, 1922- (Author) |
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| Other Authors: | Tetley-Paul, Alice (Translator), Asbury, Anna (Translator) |
| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English Dutch |
| Published: |
New York :
Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. ;
2021.
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| Edition: | First Scribner hardcover edition. |
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| Summary: |
An international bestseller, this powerful memoir by a 98-year-old Jewish Resistance fighter and Ravensbruck concentration camp survivor shows us how to find hope in hopelessness and light in the darkness (Edith Eger, author of 'The Choice and The Gift'). When the war began, Perre lived with her parents, two older brothers, and a younger sister in Amsterdam. Being Jewish in the Netherlands had not presented much of an issue, but by 1941 it had become a matter of life or death. While her father was summoned to a work camp, her mother and sister went into hiding but were betrayed and sent to Auschwitz. Perre took on an assumed identity and joined the Resistance movement, using the pseudonym Margareta van der Kuit. Transported to Ravensbrück, she survived by using her alias. -- adapted from jacket |
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| Item Description: |
Originally published in Dutch in 2020 by Thomas Rap as Mijn naam is Selma. |
| Physical Description: |
xiv, 204 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| ISBN: |
1982164670 9781982164676 |
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