
My Name Is Selma
The Remarkable Memoir of a Jewish Resistance Fighter and Ravensbrück Survivor
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Rachel Bavidge
An international bestseller, this powerful memoir by a 98-year-old Jewish Resistance fighter and Holocaust survivor “shows us how to find hope in hopelessness and light in the darkness” (Edith Eger, author of The Choice and The Gift).
Selma van de Perre was 17 when World War II began. Until then, being Jewish in the Netherlands had not been an issue. But by 1941 it had become a matter of life or death. On several occasions, Selma barely avoided being rounded up by the Nazis. While her father was summoned to a work camp and eventually hospitalized in a Dutch transition camp, her mother and sister went into hiding - until they were betrayed in June 1943 and sent to Auschwitz. In an act of defiance and with nowhere else to turn, Selma took on an assumed identity, dyed her hair blond, and 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 traveled around the country and even to Nazi headquarters in Paris, sharing information and delivering papers - doing, as she later explained, what “had to be done.”
In July 1944 her luck ran out. She was transported to Ravensbrück women’s concentration camp as a political prisoner. Unlike her parents and sister who she later found out died in other camps - Selma survived by using her alias, pretending to be someone else. It was only after the war ended that she could reclaim her identity and dared to say once again: My name is Selma.
“We were ordinary people plunged into extraordinary circumstances,” she writes in this “astonishing, inspirational, and important” memoir (Ariana Neumann, author of When Time Stopped). Full of hope and courage, this is Selma’s story in her own words.
©2020 Selma van de Perre. English language translation ©2020 Alice Tetley-Paul and Anna Asbury. Originally published in Dutch in 2020 by Thomas Rap as Mijn naam is Selma. Previously published in English in Great Britain in 2020 by Bantam Press, an imprint of Transworld Publishers. All rights reserved. (P)2020 Penguin Audio. All rights reserved.Listeners also enjoyed...




















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Critically important eyewitness testimony
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Great testament of the world to survive with dignity and strength.
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Remarkable
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Truly exceptional woman and story!
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Excellent reading voice, calm and soothing.
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Life is not fair as we still, to this day, can attest, but our daily trials and tribulations pale compare to the holocaust.
I gave it 5 stars across the board because it earned it. Thank you for writing this in your later years. It truly needs to be remembered.
Unfathomable Human Strength and Perseverance
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the solid heartfelt story telling and characters were really well described and presented.
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Must read
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great book
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