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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

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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

Language

eng

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autobiography

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

My name is Selma

Oclc number

1201298257

Responsibility statement

Selma van de Perre ; translated by Alice Tetley-Paul and Anna Asbury

Sub title

the remarkable memoir of a Jewish resistance fighter and Ravensbrück survivor

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')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

Table Of 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

Target audience

adult

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