Edith Velmans (1925–2023)
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Edith Velmans took a degree in Psychology at the University of Amsterdam after the war and was Director of the War Orphanage there until 1948. In 1951 she left The Netherlands with her husband Loet Velmans and two baby daughters. She studied with Piaget in Switzerland and received a Masters of mostra altro Education from Columbia University in New York City in 1977. Mrs. Velmans was knighted by Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands in 1996. She currently lives in Sheffield, MA. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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The Assassin's Cloak: An Anthology of the World's Greatest Diarists (2000) — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni — 552 copie
Reader's Digest Condensed Books: The Testament • Homeport • Fire and Ice • Edith's Book (1999) — Autore — 5 copie
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- Altri nomi
- Van Hessen, Edith
Velmans-Van Hessen, Edith - Data di nascita
- 1925
- Data di morte
- 2023-03-10
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- Netherlands
USA - Luogo di nascita
- The Hague, Netherlands
- Luogo di residenza
- The Hague, Netherlands
New York, New York, USA
Sheffield, Massachusetts, USA - Istruzione
- University of Amsterdam
Columbia University - Attività lavorative
- psychologist
Holocaust survivor
memoirist - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Order of the Netherlands Lion
- Breve biografia
- Edith Velmans, née van Hessen, was a carefree Dutch Jewish teenager living in The Hague with her artistic and musical family when she began a diary in 1938. Even the German invasion of Holland in World War II did not immediately dampen her happy-go-lucky existence. She was preoccupied by school exams, theater productions, sailing expeditions, skating parties, and a growing interest in boys. However, by the summer of 1942 it became clear that the family was in real danger. Edith was given false identity papers and sent by her parents David and Adelheid van Hessen into hiding with a Protestant family in a small town in southern Holland. She survived the war, and afterwards discovered that her grandmother, parents and one of her brothers were dead. She studied at the University of Amsterdam and became a psychologist specializing in gerontology. In 1949, she married Loet Velmans, with whom she had three daughters. They later emigrated to the USA. Her memoir Edith's Story: The True Story of a Young Girl's Courage and Survival During World War II, based on her diaries and letters she exchanged with her parents, was published in English in 1998. In 1996, she was knighted by Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands.
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- 3
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- 4
- Utenti
- 233
- Popolarità
- #96,932
- Voto
- 4.1
- Recensioni
- 3
- ISBN
- 26
- Lingue
- 5