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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Title: Edith's Story
Publisher: Soho Press Inc
Publication Date: 1999
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1569471789
ISBN 13: 9781569471784
Binding: Hardback
Condition: Good

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A Dutch Jew who survived the Holocaust by hiding out with her family in a Protestant household recounts her harrowing ordeal, which culminated with a German officer being billeted in the same house.

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Edith Velmans became a psychologist and eventually settled in the United States. In 1996 she was knighted by Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands. She has three daughters and five grandchildren, and lives in Sheffield, Massachusetts. Edith's Story was shortlisted for the 1998 Jewish Quarterly Literary Prize for nonfiction in England.

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