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  • Published: 3 October 2013
  • ISBN: 9780241959275
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 256

Edith's Book



The extraordinary true story of how the young Edith Velmans, from a sophisticated Jewish family in The Hague, was hidden by a Dutch family during the war at enormous personal danger. Edith survived but her mother, father, grandmother and one of her brothers died - all of which is described in this truly moving book. The story is told partly through straight narrative but partly through diaries and letters that Edith kept .

  • Published: 3 October 2013
  • ISBN: 9780241959275
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 256

Praise for Edith's Book

Truly moving...leaving one with great hope in humanity.

Julia Neuberger, The Times

Both memoir and meditation, it is moving and wise... neither sanguine nor sentimental about the Holocaust and man's capacity for evil. It shows that a belief in goodness... is the key to living well with such a past. The most vivid evocation of the experience of Nazi Occupation I have ever read.

Linda Holt, The Independent

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

Gives all the pain and pleasure of reading Anne Frank for the first time.

Esther Freud

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.

The Guardian

One of the best and most moving memoirs I have ever read.

Ruth Rendell, Sunday Times

Edith's Story, the memoir of an Anne Frank who lived, reminds us of the old horror all the more effectively bu not being a horror story. Evil and grief, without being scanted, are outshone by sweetness, freshness, and pluck.

Roy Blount Jr.

A significant Holocaust memoir... A valuable opportunity to see the situation just outside Anne's attic.

Kirkus Reviews