By Edith Velmans - Edithβs Story: The Tr
π Fiction
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2014
π van Horton Books
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By Edith Velmans - Edith's Story: The True Story of How One Young Girl Survived Worl
β Scribed by Edith Velmans
- Publisher
- van Horton Books
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- English
- Edition
- 4
- Category
- Library
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The classic story of 'the Anne Frank who lived,' Edith's Story is based on the diaries of a Dutch young girl who survived World War II hiding in plain sight. 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 in the camps. 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. "I never realized that there could be such suffering in the world, and that anyone could live through it." from the diary, July 1, 1945."The most...
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