Full name: Edith's Story: The True Story of a Young Girl's Courage and Survival During World War II

Author: Edith Velmans Year: 1998 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, History, War/Military, Memoirs, Historical fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780983550563 0983550565

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) Similar books: Alicia by Alicia Appleman-Jurman Kindertransport by Olga Levy Drucker I Shall Live by Henry Orenstein Clara's War by Clara Kramer All But My Life by Gerda Weissmann Klein The Dentist of Auschwitz by Benjamin Jacobs In My Hands by Irene Gut Opdyke The Seamstress by Sara Tuvel Bernstein Elly: My True Story of the Holocaust by Elly Gross The Girl in the Green Sweater by Krystyna Chiger Searching for Schindler by Thomas Keneally The Nazi Officer's Wife by Edith Hahn Beer I Am a Star by Inge Auerbacher Eva's Story by Eva Schloss Leap into Darkness by Leo Bretholz The Railway Man by Eric Lomax The Last Jew of Treblinka by Chil Rajchman A Lucky Child by Thomas Buergenthal Surviving Hitler by Andrea Warren When Broken Glass Floats by Chanrithy Him