{"product_id":"ediths-book","title":"Edith's Book","description":"\u003cp\u003eMemoirs of Velmans (née van Hessen), born in The Hague in 1925, who survived the Holocaust under false identity papers, living with a non-Jewish family in the town of Breda. Her rescuers were Egbert and Tine zur Kleinsmiede (who in 1983 were awarded the title of Righteous Gentile by Yad Vashem). Velmans' family had visas to leave Germany, but only her brother Guus left; he was the only other survivor of the family. Velmans' brother Jules was caught trying to escape and sent to prison and then to a death camp in Poland. Her mother was taken from a hospital to Westerbork and then, with her mother, to Sobibor, where they were gassed in May 1943. Velmans learned of all these deaths only after her liberation on 29 October 1944. She then resumed her own identity, after two years of living under the name of Nettie Schierboom. The postwar period was marked by weddings, Velmans' own and those of two women whose families had helped Jews during the war and who married two of Velmans' cousins.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"sb-details\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGenre:\u003c\/strong\u003e Velmans-Van Hessen, Edith, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1998\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Viking\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9780670881611\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Velmans, Edith","offers":[{"title":"Standard Secondhand — £1.79","offer_id":48043960074417,"sku":"SB-0670881619-C3","price":1.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/2669\/5345\/files\/0670881619.jpg?v=1792113001","url":"https:\/\/sellbooks.co.uk\/products\/ediths-book","provider":"Sell Books .co.uk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}