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Edith Velmans
Edith Velmans was born in 1925 in The Hague, the Netherlands. When she was thirteen she began keeping a diary, in which she recorded what was happening both before and after the Ge...lihat lebih banyakEdith Velmans was born in 1925 in The Hague, the Netherlands. When she was thirteen she began keeping a diary, in which she recorded what was happening both before and after the Germans invaded. In 1942 she was sent into hiding, and lived with a brave Gentile family until the end of the war. When she came out of hiding she found out that most of her family had perished. After the war she became a psychologist specializing in gerontology, eventually settling in the United States, where she began transcribing the diaries and letters that became Edith's Story. Her memoir has been translated and published in a dozen countries, including Germany, Italy and Japan. In 1996 she was knighted by Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands. Her memoir has been translated and published in over a dozen countries. In 1999 it was the recipient of the "Best Biography" Talkies Award as well as the Jewish Quarterly's Wingate Award for Non-Fiction.lihat lebih sedikit