My Name is Selma : : the Remarkable Memoir of a Jewish Resistance Fighter and Ravensbrück Survivor
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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.
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
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PUBLISHED
New York : Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. ; 2021.
Year Published: 2021
Description: xiv, 204 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
1982164670
9781982164676
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Tetley-Paul, Alice,
Asbury, Anna,
SUBJECTS
Perre, Selma van de, -- 1922-
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
Holocaust survivors -- Netherlands.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Jewish resistance -- Netherlands.
Jews -- History -- Biography.
Personal narratives.
Autobiographies.
Biography & Autobiography.