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Edith's Story

Autor Edith Velmans Editat de Hester Velmans
en Limba Engleză Paperback – aug 2014
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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ISBN-13: 9780983550563
ISBN-10: 0983550565
Pagini: 276
Dimensiuni: 127 x 203 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Ediția:4th edition
Editura: Van Horton Books

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THE EXTRAORDINARY TRUE STORY OF HOW ONE YOUNG GIRL ESCAPED THE HOLOCAUST



'It holds you with the same intensity as The Diary of Anne Frank and leaves you heart-broken, illuminated, and amazed at the capacity for courage' GUARDIAN

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'I never realised that there could be such suffering in the world, and that anyone could live through it' - from Edith's diary, 1st July 1945


After Germany occupied the Netherlands in 1940, fourteen-year-old Edith was still filling her diary with carefree stories of school, parties and boys. But her entries soon record a darkening world. By 1942, as the Nazis escalated their persecution of the Jewish population, Edith began a bitter struggle to survive.

Hidden in plain sight but a courageous Christian family, with a German officer billeted in the next room, Edith faced the horrors of war under constant threat of discovery and betrayal. Weaving together Edith's diaries with letters smuggled between family members and her own memories, this extraordinary memoir of 'the Anne Frank who lived' is a profoundly moving account of grief, loss, courage - and one girl's remarkable belief in humanity in the face of despair.

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY ESTHER FREUD

'One of the best and most moving memoirs I have ever read' RUTH RENDELL

'It's impossible to get through this inspiring and great-hearted volume dry-eyed' WASHINGTON POST

'Both memoir and meditation, it is moving and wise . . . neither sanguine nor sentimental about the Holocaust and man's capacity for evil' LINDA HOLT, INDEPENDENT

'Truly moving . . . leaving one with great hope in humanity' THE TIMES

A VIRAGO MODERN CLASSIC

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I never realised that there could be such suffering in the world, and that anyone could live through it' 1 July 1945




In 1940, while the Germans occupied Holland, fourteen-year-old Edith van Hessen was filling her diary with carefree stories of school, parties and boys. But her entries record a darkening world. By 1942, as the Nazis escalated their war against the Jewish population, Edith began a bitter struggle to survive.


Hidden in plain sight by another Dutch family, with a Nazi officer billeted in the next room, Edith faces the horrors of war under constant threat of discovery and betrayal. As terrible news filters through from home, she can only shout her real name to the wind and wait for liberation.


Weaving together Edith's diaries with letters smuggled between family members and her own memories, this extraordinary memoir of 'the Anne Frank who lived' is a profoundly moving account of grief, loss, courage - and one girl's remarkable belief in humanity in the face of despair.


'Leaves you heart-broken, illuminated, and amazed at the capacity for courage' Esther Freud


'Moving and wise . . . The most vivid evocation of the experience of Nazi Occupation I have ever read' Independent


'Truly moving . . . leaving one with great hope in humanity' The Times


INTRODUCED BY ESTHER FREUD