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Edith's Book by Edith Velmans (Paperback, 1999)
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- Buy it nowEdith's Book: The True Story of How One Young Girl Survived the War,Edith Velma
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Winner of the Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Literary Prize for Non-fiction Edith's Book (published as Edith's Story in the US) is often compared to Anne Frank's diary. In occupied Holland, Edith, from a lively, loving Jewish family in The Hague, went into hiding the same month as Anne Frank, both Edith and Anne kept diaries, which are remarkably similar in their pre-war teen preoccupations with boys, school and parties. But Edith's world gradually darkens. When Nazi laws forbid her from attending school, riding her bike or even going to the beach, she wears the yellow star as a badge of honour, prompting people in the street to tell her to keep her chin up. In 1943, she is forced into hiding with forged papers, posing as a family friend in a courageous gentile household in the south of Holland, where a Nazi officer is billeted in the room next to hers. Under constant danger of discovery and betrayal, she receives terrible news from home in dribs and drabs-the deportation to the death camps first of her brother, then her mother and grandmother, never to be heard from again, while her father dies broken-hearted in a far-off hospital. Edith can only dare shout her real name to the wind, and wait for liberation. Unlike Anne Frank, Edith survived to tell her tale, and her moving teenage diary is enhanced by heartbreaking letters from her parents. A poignant coda is that after the war she became friends in the maternity ward with Miep Gies, who had helped to hide the Franks.Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Books LTD
ISBN-139780140276893
eBay Product ID (ePID)87708028
Product Key Features
Book TitleEdith's Book
Number of Pages256 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1999
TopicHistory, Books
TypeTextbook
AuthorEdith Velmans
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height198 mm
Item Weight214 g
Item Width128 mm
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorEdith Velmans
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- 01 Dec, 2021
Ediths book
An excellent moving true story.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 21 Jul, 2021
EDITHS BOOK
Excellent read and very sad but important information about endurance and survival.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 30 Sep, 2020
Brilliant book
Really feel her ordealVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
