
My Name Is Selma
The Remarkable Memoir of a Jewish Resistance Fighter and Ravensbrück Survivor
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Rachel Bavidge
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Auteur(s):
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Selma van de Perre
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An international bestseller, this powerful memoir by a 98-year-old Jewish Resistance fighter and Holocaust survivor “shows us how to find hope in hopelessness and light in the darkness” (Edith Eger, author of The Choice and The Gift).
Selma van de Perre was 17 when World War II began. Until then, being Jewish in the Netherlands had not been an issue. But by 1941 it had become a matter of life or death. On several occasions, Selma barely avoided being rounded up by the Nazis. While her father was summoned to a work camp and eventually hospitalized in a Dutch transition camp, her mother and sister went into hiding - until they were betrayed in June 1943 and sent to Auschwitz. In an act of defiance and with nowhere else to turn, Selma took on an assumed identity, dyed her hair blond, and joined the Resistance movement, using the pseudonym Margareta van der Kuit. For two years “Marga” risked it all. Using a fake ID, and passing as Aryan, she traveled around the country and even to Nazi headquarters in Paris, sharing information and delivering papers - doing, as she later explained, what “had to be done.”
In July 1944 her luck ran out. She was transported to Ravensbrück women’s concentration camp as a political prisoner. Unlike her parents and sister who she later found out died in other camps - Selma survived by using her alias, pretending to be someone else. It was only after the war ended that she could reclaim her identity and dared to say once again: My name is Selma.
“We were ordinary people plunged into extraordinary circumstances,” she writes in this “astonishing, inspirational, and important” memoir (Ariana Neumann, author of When Time Stopped). Full of hope and courage, this is Selma’s story in her own words.
©2020 Selma van de Perre. English language translation ©2020 Alice Tetley-Paul and Anna Asbury. Originally published in Dutch in 2020 by Thomas Rap as Mijn naam is Selma. Previously published in English in Great Britain in 2020 by Bantam Press, an imprint of Transworld Publishers. All rights reserved. (P)2020 Penguin Audio. All rights reserved.Vous pourriez aussi aimer...
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- Richard
- 2025-04-13
Moving!!!
I have read many books on the holocaust, this was an excellent account of Selma’s and her friends & families experiences. It is a much needed reminder of the events of WWII. I found this book especially good at creating empathy as it felt as though you were sitting with Selma as she told her story. Highly recommend!!!
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- Coni
- 2021-05-20
Makes you appreciate your freedom
Truly outstanding, heroic and heartbreaking. Thank you for sharing a beautiful story, albeit tragic it still remains her own.
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- Kay Webber
- 2022-09-05
A gripping and heart breaking story
I couldn't stop listening once I started. My heart hurts for her experience but I feel thankful to have had the opportunity to be let into her memories.
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- 2023-01-08
So moving. It has left me kind of speechless.
Everyone should read this. It should be mandatory. It should be taught more widely. And every person who hears someone deny the truth of this story should stand up and deny their voice.
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- Km
- 2021-09-03
highly recommend
Selma's story of courage and following her gut I'll stay with me forever. I highly recommend for Generation like me who didn't have to live through this awful time, so we can make sure we don't repeat this history.
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