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When Hitler invaded Holland in 1939, Edith van Hessen was a popular Dutch high school student. She also happened to be Jewish. In the same month that Anne Frank's family went into hiding, Edith was sent to live with a courageous Protestant family, took a new name, and survived by posing as a gentile. Ultimately one-third of the hidden Dutch Jews were discovered and murdered; most of Edith's family perished.Velmans's memoir is based on her teenage diaries, wartime letters, and reflections as an adult survivor. In recounting wartime events and the details of her feelings as the war runs its course, Edith's Story ultimately affirms life, love, and extraordinary courage."The most vivid evocation of the experience of Nazi Occupation that I have ever read." - The Independent (London)
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"I never realized that there could be such suffering in the world, and that anyone could live through it."
-- Excerpt from Edith's diary, July 1, 1945
"Truly moving...leaving one with great hope in humanity."
-- The Times (London)
"Edith's Story, the memoir of an Anne Frank who lived, reminds us of the old horror all the more effectively by not being a horror story. Evil and grief, without being scanted, are outshone by sweetness, freshness, and pluck."
-- Roy Blount Jr.
International praise for Edith's Story:
"The most vivid evocation of the experience of Nazi Occupation I have ever read."
-- The Independent (London)
"It's impossible to get through this inspiring and great-hearted volume dry-eyed, or without admiration for people who so bravely persevere through unimaginable hardship and privation."
-- The Washington Post
"Velmans' candid portrayal of herself as a feisty, loving, sometimes self-absorbed teenager is thoroughly engaging and her story throws a new light on the plight of Jews who survived the war hidden in plain sight."
-- Publishers Weekly
"Edith's Story gives all the pain and pleasure of reading Anne Frank for the first time."
-- Esther Freud
"A significant Holocaust memoir... A valuable opportunity to see the situation just outside Anne's attic."
-- Kirkus Reviews
"A quiet, gripping narrative with the writer's hindsight and restrained commentary."
-- ALA Booklist (starred review)
"One of the best and most moving memoirs I have ever read."
-- Ruth Rendell
"The miracle of this story is not that Edith survived, but that she survived with her love of life intact."
-- The Roanoke Times
About the Author
After the war, Edith Velmans became a psychologist and eventually settled in the United States. In 1996, she was knighted by Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands. She and her husband now live in Sheffield, Massachusetts.
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London: Penguin, 1999
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