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"I never realized that there could be such suffering in the world, and that anyone could live through it."-- Excerpt from Edith's diary, July 1, 1945"Truly moving...leaving one with great hope in humanity."-- The Times (London)"Edith's Story, the memoir of an Anne Frank who lived, reminds us of the old horror all the more effectively by not being a horror story. Evil and grief, without being scanted, are outshone by sweetness, freshness, and pluck."-- Roy Blount Jr.International praise for Edith's Story:"The most vivid evocation of the experience of Nazi Occupation I have ever read."-- The Independent (London)"It's impossible to get through this inspiring and great-hearted volume dry-eyed, or without admiration for people who so bravely persevere through unimaginable hardship and privation."-- The Washington Post"Velmans' candid portrayal of herself as a feisty, loving, sometimes self-absorbed teenager is thoroughly engaging and her story throws a new light on the plight of Jews who survived the war hidden in plain sight."-- Publishers Weekly"Edith's Story gives all the pain and pleasure of reading Anne Frank for the first time."-- Esther Freud"A significant Holocaust memoir... A valuable opportunity to see the situation just outside Anne's attic."-- Kirkus Reviews"A quiet, gripping narrative with the writer's hindsight and restrained commentary."-- ALA Booklist (starred review)"One of the best and most moving memoirs I have ever read."-- Ruth Rendell"The miracle of this story is not that Edith survived, but that she survived with her love of life intact."-- The Roanoke Times
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le 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 h
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Product details
Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher: Bantam (January 2, 2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0553381105
ISBN-13: 978-0553381108
Product Dimensions:
5.3 x 0.7 x 8.3 inches
Shipping Weight: 8.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.7 out of 5 stars
52 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#3,559,269 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
I don't like to read stories about the Holocaust, but I began reading a sample of "Edith's Story: The True Story of How One Young Girl Survived World War II" on my Kindle Fire and found that could not put the book down. I had to buy the book of course, and it only took me two days to read it.Edith van Hessen was a happy child and teen growing up in Holland. As I read about her, I was reminded of my own daughter who seems to make friends wherever she goes.Edith was good at sports. She attended an exclusive private school, played the piano, loved to write and had a wonderful and loving mother and father, grandmother, and two brothers. Her home was a home filled with love.She even wrote that she ice skated with her friends in Holland. Edith, like all young teens, looked forward to a happy life and future.Just like Anne Frank, she kept diaries and wrote a lot of letters. Parts of her diary entries and letters are woven together throughout her book.Before Germany invaded Holland, Edith's oldest brother moved to the USA when it seemed that it might be dangerous for the family to stay in Holland because they are Jews, but the rest of the family did not really want to leave the comfortable life they had in Holland.The van Hessens knew they are Jewish, but they were secular Jews who even celebrated "St Nicholas" day. They have friends from all sorts of religious backgrounds, and life in Holland was good. They actually could have moved easier than some since her father worked for an American company based in Ohio.Also, the USA would not allow Edith's grandmother in the United States since the grandmother was from Germany and the USA had closed the door on Jewish Germans, so the family decided to stay since they didn't want to leave the grandmother behind.Just in case they might possibly change their minds, they did obtain passports and Visas, but those were burned up after the Germans invaded Holland.At first the van Hessens did not believe Hitler would actually do the same things in Holland as he did in Germany, but they soon found out that they were wrong. It happened slowly, but soon they had to sew yellow stars on all of their clothing, Edith can't go to school with gentiles, they can't ride bikes, they can't ride buses, their car is taken away, they can only shop at certain times, and things keep getting worse and worse. Jewish friends are suddenly told they must vacate their homes. It is a very scary time.The van Hessen family decides to have Edith and her brother Jules hide since young people are being "called" and being "called" could mean that they could be sent to work camps or to unknown places. Edith and her brother obtain false identification cards without the Jewish "J" and different names. Jules goes to a different place to hide than Edith.Edith lives with a gentile family in an area where no one knows her and takes on the name "Netti" (a gentile girl whose parents are ill) and helps her hosts keep their home clean. She is very lonely during that time and misses her family so much. She is visited by a gentile friend that gives her letters from her parents that are supposed to be burned after they are read, but she keeps the letters anyway. These letters are treasures now since they are what made Edith's book so very dramatic.During the hiding period, Edith does get to travel to see her father one last time while he is the hospital recovering from cancer surgery, but knows it will be the last time she will ever see him. She also does see her brother one time, just before her brother tells her about his plan to escape from Holland .The brother who had false identification is caught though before he has a chance to escape and is eventually sent to a death camp. Her family's home is eventually taken by the Germans. Her mother and grandmother, and friends and other relatives are eventually sent to death camps and die there. Her father dies in the hospital, but Edith says that later she believes he may have committed suicide rather than be sent to a German death camp.Edith "hides" under the false gentile identity for about three years.After the Germans are defeated and things return to "normal," Edith leaves the gentile family and returns home and finds her bedroom almost intact, although her family's house was stripped and everything else was gone. In her room she also finds photos and memories.Edith is reunited with her brother,who moved to the USA and also her cousin who both served with the Allies during the war. She goes on with her life and eventually goes to college, participates in sports, gets married, has children and goes to America.She forms a new family and life goes on, but she always misses her parents, brother, grandmother, and other friends and family who died in the Holocaust.This book really affected me and seemed to be more powerful a read that Anne Frank's diary. In fact, when Edith had twin babies in 1950, she shared a hospital room with Miep, the woman who helped hide the Frank family! She tells Miep, when Miep mentions that Mr. Frank is trying to publish Anne's diary, that she doubts anyone will read it...It is awful to think such a sad thing happened to such a young and sweet girl. I cried and I will cry again when I think about Edith's story. I hope nothing like the Holocaust will ever happen again...
It took me a while to get into this book, but once I did I really liked it. This is the story of Edith Velmans who lost most of her family in the Holocaust. Edith and her two older brothers grew up in the Netherlands. Her parents Gustav and Adelheid had a loving happy marriage, especially watching their three children growing into young adults. All of this changed rapidly with the Nazi invasion of the Netherlands in 1940. Edith was only 14 at that time and at first hardly noticed the changes toward the Jewish population. Unfortunately, Edith's father developed health problems at that time which was eventually diagnosed as cancer. Her mother suffered a fractured hip that required surgery and a very long recuperation. Edith's oldest brother Guus had managed to escape to the United States. With the situation for the Jews rapidly getting worse, Edith and her brother Jules decided to go into hiding. A wonderful book with valuable documentation of every day life for Jews in the Netherlands after 1940.
Every time I read a book about survivors of WWII, I learn something. The resilience of Edith, the challenges she faces, and the strength of her character are detailed through her own journal and tremendous ability to "understand" herself. The love of her nuclear family formed her "being". Her "adopted family" created the safety and shelter she needed in Holland, a country controlled by Germans. The book testifies to "courage and resolve" in the face of difficulty -- what one must do in the circumstances they find themselves in order to "fit in and survive."
The writer wove together a story from a diary and letters. Many times the reader may be confused as to the speaker as the story is intertwined with the letters and the diary. This child's account of the fall of The Netherlands to the Germans, the occupation, and the liberation will pluck your heartstrings. The sound heard will grate on your humanity. There are silent heroes, the father and mother, who attempt to elevate their daughter's spirits beyond what is realistic. The story is a warning that liberties can be gradually stolen so silently that one barely notices the incremental changes until it is too late to reclaim them.
This award-winning memoir, compiled from Edith's wartime diaries, letters, and recollections has been translated and published in over a dozen countries, with good reason. She tells her gripping story of coming to age, being hidden away and estranged from her family, in the German-controlled Netherlands. Where her contemporary, Anne Frank, did not survive, Edith did, and she tells, with great depth of perception, how her idyllic life as a young teen was forever changed by her experiences of WWII. I'm honored to have "heard" her story!
I had to read this memoir in an Anne Frank class and it should be better known! After reading Anne's diary, I felt this one was lacking some of the personality, but I definitely enjoyed this read. Edith's Story should become a staple to Holocaust diary/memoir readings!
I loved Edith's story. It is filled with love and vulnerability and strength during the most challenging of times. I have read many survivor stories from WWII but none have shown the depth of emotion and focus of a family's love that this memoir does. Included are many letters written during this time that capture a sense of the war in Holland as no other medium could. Edith's story is both heartbreaking as well as inspirational. It touched me deeply.
This is one of 110 books that I have read about the Holocaust. I cried reading it, yet it is very inspirational. The horrors these people were forced to live through, and how they suffered at the hands of others! Yet there were incredible, wonderful people willing to help as best they could! I would like to believe I would step up to help others; but the consequences were so stiff for yourself and your own family....God willing we will never be put to that test again!
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