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Edith's Book (1998)

by Edith Velmans(Favorite Author)

4.01 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0670881619 (ISBN13: 9780670881611)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Viking Books

review 1: The true story of Edith Von Hessen, a Dutch Jew who was hidden in plain sight during the German occupation. She states at the beginning of the book that she never thought her story was important enough to tell because she survived and did not suffer the horrible trials that others suffered. Part of the story is told through the journals that she kept before she went into hiding and also through the letters from her family that she defiantly saved even though their existence could condemn her. I enjoyed reading about the war through her perspective and seeing how the people did not see the next thing coming. They always thought that the current limitation or restriction would be the last until they were being hunted down and taken to the concentration cam... moreps. T
review 2: This is another great book on the Jewish Holocaust. It's amazing the things these people went through- and to read about their personal thoughts and experiences and think, they're just like me! She was a teenage girl obsessed with boys- just like I was. Not that I was racist and thought she wasn't a "normal" human... it's just that Holocaust victims have been put sort of on a pedestal in my mind as great people in history. When in reality they really WERE just "normal" human beings trying to make it through some terrible circumstances. But anyway, she shares her private story of wearing the Jewish star, going into hiding, and hearing about each of her family members deaths one by one. It's a sad and tragic tale, but a great one for those looking into the Holocaust in a more personal rather than historical way. less

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