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Edith's Story
A Dutch Jew who survived the Holocaust by hiding out with her family in a Protestant household recounts her harrowing ordeal, which culminated with a German officer being billeted in the same house. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.
Edith's Book
Winner of the Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Literary Prize for Non-fiction Edith's Book (published as Edith's Story in the US) is often compared to Anne Frank's diary. In occupied Holland, Edith, from a lively, loving Jewish family in The Hague, went into hiding the same month as Anne Frank, both Edith and Anne kept diaries, which are remarkably similar in their pre-war teen preoccupations with boys, school and parties. But Edith's world gradually darkens. When Nazi laws forbid her from attending school, riding her bike or even going to the beach, she wears the yellow star as a badge of honour, prompting people in the street to tell her to keep her chin up. In 1943, she is forced into hiding with...
Edith's Story
Memoir and diary entries of a Jewish Dutch girl who survived the Holocaust by hiding out with her family in a Protestant household recount her harrowing ordeal, which culminated with a German officer being billeted in the same house.
Edith's Book
The true story of how one young Jewish girl survived the Holocaust and of the loss and suffering experienced by the other members of her family.
Edith's Story
A Dutch Jew who survived the Holocaust by hiding out with her family in a Protestant household recounts her harrowing ordeal, which culminated with a German officer being billeted in the same house.
Edith's Story
The story of a teenage Jewish girl who was sent into hiding in 1942 with a Christian family.--
Edith's Story
'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 In 1940, while 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. By 1942, as Edith was contemplating her first kiss, the Germans had begun to escalate their war against the Jewish population. Caught in the cross fire of the Holocaust, Edith began a bitter struggle to survive. This extraordinary memoir weaves together entries from Edith's diaries with letters smuggled between family members during the occupation, and her own memories. Edith's Story sta...
Het verhaal van Edith
Het dagboek van het Joodse meisje Edith begint in 1938, als zij nog een onbezorgd Haags leven leidt. Ze schrijft over school, feestjes en jongens. Maar dan doet de oorlog zijn intrede. Edith moet onderduiken in Breda, waar zij, afgesneden van haar familie, zware jaren doorbrengt. Uiteindelijk zullen alleen zij en haar broer Guus de oorlog overleven. Het verhaal van Edith, waarin Edith Velmans haar oorspronkelijke dagboek heeft aangevuld met herinneringen en brieven, verscheen in 1997. Er werden wereldwijd meer dan een miljoen exemplaren van verkocht. Deze nieuwe Nederlandse uitgave werd aangevuld met een interview door Judith Uyterlinde en een selectie uit de vele ontroerende lezersbrieven die Edith ontving na publicatie van haar dagboek. Edith Velmans-van Hessen (1925) woont al decennia in de Verenigde Staten en was onder andere bestuurslid van het Anne Frank Centre USA. `Het verhaal van Edith blinkt uit in authenticiteit.' de Volkskrant `Hebben we nóg een boek met Holocaust-memoires nodig? Ja, dat hebben we. Dit onderwerp raakt de kern van het mens-zijn.' The Spectator `Een bijzonder mooi en aangrijpend boek.' Opzij
Negotiating Racial Politics in the Family
This book is situated at the cutting edge of the political-ethical dimension of history writing. Henkes investigates various responsibilities and loyalties towards family and nation, as well as other major ethical obligations towards society and humanity when historical subjects have to deal with a repressive political regime. In the first section we follow pre-war German immigrants in the Netherlands and their German affiliation during the era of National Socialism. The second section explores the positions of Dutch emigrants who settled after the Second World War in Apartheid South Africa. The narratives of these transnational agents and their relatives provide a lens through which changing constructions of national identities, and the acceptance or rejection of a nationalist policy on racial grounds, can be observed in everyday practice.
From P.O.W. to C.E.O.
From POW to CEO picks up Loet Velmans's story at the end of World War II, when, as a newly liberated prisoner of war, he returned from the Far East to Europe, and shortly thereafter set out for the United States, newly married and with no immediate job prospects. That soon changed when he was hired by John Hill, the founder of Hill & Knowlton, then America's largest and most influential PR firm. Hill, who saw something in this inexperienced young man that others in the firm did not, sent Velmans back to Europe a couple of years later to set up the firm's first overseas office. In telling the story of his worldwide peregrinations and his eventual rise to the position of Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Hill & Knowlton, Velmans shares his unique perspective on the "culture gap" between nations and the need for U.S. business to address that gap.
