the remarkable memoir of a Jewish resistance fighter and Ravensbrück survivor Perre, Selma van de 1922- creator author Tetley-Paul, Alice translator Asbury, Anna translator text biography Biography & Autobiography Personal Narrative Autobiography Biography Personal narratives. Autobiographies. Biographies. nyu 2021 2020 First Scribner hardcover edition monographic eng dut

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xiv, 204 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm 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 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 adult Selma van de Perre ; translated by Alice Tetley-Paul and Anna Asbury Originally published in Dutch in 2020 by Thomas Rap as Mijn naam is Selma e-ne--- 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 Biography HHRC DS135.N6 P47713 2021 940.531832092 B 9781982164676 1982164670 Simon & Schuster, Order Dept 100 Front st, Riverside, NJ, USA, 08075 201023 20250712125209.0 1201298257