Edith's Story
The true story of how one young girl escaped the Holocaust
$23.75
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
27 May 2025
Summary
THE EXTRAORDINARY TRUE STORY OF HOW ONE YOUNG GIRL ESCAPED THE HOLOCAUST
‘It holds you with the same intensity as The Diary of Anne Frank and leaves you heart-broken, illuminated, and amazed at the capacity for courage’ GUARDIAN
‘I never realised that there could be such suffering in the world, and that anyone could live through it’ - from Edith’s diary, 1st July 1945
After Germany occupied the Netherlands in 1940, fourteen-year-…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349019161 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0349019169 |
| Author: | Edith Velmans, Esther Freud |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 27 May 2025 |
| Weight: | 252g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 124mm x 22mm |
| Series: | Virago Modern Classics |
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About The Author
Edith Velmans
Edith Velmans took a degree in Psychology at the University of Amsterdam after the war and was Director of the War Orphanage there until 1948. In 1951 she left The Netherlands with her husband Loet Velmans and two baby daughters. She studied with Piaget in Switzerland and received a Masters of Education from Columbia University in New York City in 1977. Mrs. Velmans was knighted by Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands in 1996. She died aged 97 in 2023.
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