- 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
- Uniform Title
- Mijn naam is Selma. English
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Perre, Selma van de, 1922- author.
- Published
- New York : Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2021
©2020
- Locale
- Netherlands
Pays-Bas
- Edition
- First Scribner hardcover edition
- Contents
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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.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Tetley-Paul, Alice, translator.
Asbury, Anna, translator.
- Notes
-
Originally published in Dutch in 2020 by Thomas Rap as Mijn naam is Selma.
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.
