My Name Is Selma: The Remarkable Memoir of a Jewish Resistance Fighter and Ravensbruck Survivor An international bestseller, this powerful memoir by a ninety-eight-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 ).
Full of hope and courage, this is Selma\'s story in her own words..
We were ordinary people plunged into extraordinary circumstances , she writes in this "astonishing, inspirational, and important" memoir ( Ariana Neumann , author of When Time Stopped ).
It was only after the war ended that she could reclaim her identity and dared to say once again: My Name is Selma.
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.
She was transported to Ravensbruck women\'s concentration camp as a political prisoner.
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.
For two years "
Marga" risked it all.
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.
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.
On several occasions, Selma barely avoided being rounded up by the Nazis.
But by 1941 it had become a matter of life or death.
Until then, being Jewish in the Netherlands had not been an issue.
Selma van de Perre was seventeen when World War II began.
My Name Is Selma: The Remarkable Memoir of a Jewish Resistance Fighter and Ravensbruck Survivor An international bestseller, this powerful memoir by a ninety-eight-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 )
