My Name Is Selma: The remarkable memoir of a Jewish Resistance fighter and Ravensbrück survivor

My Name Is Selma: The remarkable memoir of a Jewish Resistance fighter and Ravensbrück survivor by van de Perre, Selma. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781787633988.

How to find hope in hopelessness and light in the darkness. Edith Eger, author of The Choice An incredible tale of heroics and survival. Dan Snow __________ I am one of few Jewish survivors of World War Two, but one of many Jewish people to fight the regime. My story illustrates what happened to thousands of Jews and non-Jews alike... the sheer luck that saved some of us and the atrocities that led to the deaths of so many, as a tribute to all those who suffered and died. Selma van de Perre was seventeen when World War Two began. Until then, being Jewish in the Netherlands had been of no consequence. But by 1941 this simple fact had become a matter of life or death. Several times, Selma avoided being rounded up by the s. Then, in an act of defiance, she 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 travelled around the country delivering newsletters, sharing information, keeping up morale - doing, as she later explained, what had to be done. In July 1944 her luck ran out. She was transported to Ravensbrück womens concentration camp as a political prisoner. Unlike her parents and sister - who, she would later discover, died in other camps - she survived by using her alias, pretending to be someone else. It was only after the war ended that she was allowed to reclaim her identity and dared to say once again: My name is Selma. Now, at ninety-eight, Selma remains a force of nature. Full of hope and courage, this is her remarkable story in her own words. __________ The most extraordinary story. James Holland