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My name is Selma : the remarkable memoir of a Jewish resistance fighter and Ravensbrück survivor / Selma van de Perre ; translated by Alice Tetley-Paul and Anna Asbury

By: Perre, Selma van de, 1922- [author]Contributor(s): Tetley-Paul, Alice [translator] | Asbury, Anna [translator]Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Dutch Publisher: New York : Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2021Copyright date: ©2020Edition: First Scribner hardcover editionDescription: xiv, 204 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781982164676; 1982164670Uniform titles: Mijn naam is Selma. English Subject(s): Perre, Selma van de, 1922- | Perre, Selma van de, 1922- | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives | Holocaust survivors -- Netherlands | World War, 1939-1945 -- Jewish resistance -- Netherlands | Jews -- History -- BiographyGenre/Form: Biography & Autobiography | Personal Narrative | Autobiography | Biography | Personal narratives. | Autobiographies. | Biographies. DDC classification: 940.531832092 | B LOC classification: HHRC DS135.N6 | P47713 2021
Contents:
Prologue -- The artist and the milliner: my family -- Jumping over ditches: my childhood -- Second-class citizens: the occupation -- Away from home: a family in hiding -- Bleached hair: in the resistance -- Secret drawers: my arrest -- Blue overalls: Camp Vught -- The passageway of death: Ravensbrück -- My real name: the liberation -- Living life: London -- Remembering the dead -- Epilogue
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')Summary: 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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Originally published in Dutch in 2020 by Thomas Rap as Mijn naam is Selma

Prologue -- The artist and the milliner: my family -- Jumping over ditches: my childhood -- Second-class citizens: the occupation -- Away from home: a family in hiding -- Bleached hair: in the resistance -- Secret drawers: my arrest -- Blue overalls: Camp Vught -- The passageway of death: Ravensbrück -- My real name: the liberation -- Living life: London -- Remembering the dead -- Epilogue

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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