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

Bantam, US, 2001. Reprint. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Illustrator: Maps & photographs. In 1940, while the Germans occupied Holland, fourteen-year-old Edith van Hessen was filling her diary with the intimate, carefree details of a typical teenager's life - thoughts about boys, school, her family, her friends, her future. By 1942, as Edith was contemplating her first kiss, the Germans had begun to escalate their war against the Jews. Soon this bright, fun-loving girl was grappling with one of the most unfathomable events in human history. Edith's family - assimilated Dutch Jews - were caught in the cross fire of the Holocaust, and Edith began a bitter struggle to survive. In this extraordinary work, Edith Velmans weaves together revealing entries from her diaries with reminiscences and letters smuggled between family members during the occupation. Edith's Story stands as a profoundly important addition to the literature of the Holocaust, documenting one girl's grief, loss, courage, and ultimate triumph over devastating tyranny and despair. For as Edith is hidden in plain sight by a Christian family, we witness how a young woman must deny, bargain with, and finally face the horrors of war - and how, confronting evil as a child, Edith survives to become an extraordinary woman. -- rear panel blurb Illustrated with a central section of black-and-white photographs, & map, and on the inside of the rear panel is a photograph of herself the author, who became a psychologist and eventually settled in the United States. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 256 pages. No damage to describe. Clean tidy copy. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Maps & photographs. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Historical; Holland; WW II; Sociology & Culture. ISBN: 0553381105. ISBN/EAN: 9780553381108. Inventory No: 0265187. . 9780553381108