Selma van de Perre

Photograph © Chris Van Houts

About The Author

Selma van de Perre was a member of the Dutch resistance organization TD Group during World War II. Shortly after the war she moved to London, where she worked for the BBC and met her future husband, the Belgian journalist Hugo van de Perre. For many years she also worked as foreign correspondent for a Dutch television station. In 1983, Selma van de Perre received the Dutch Resistance Commemoration Cross. She lives in London and has a son.

Books by Selma van de Perre

My Name Is Selma

The Remarkable Memoir of a Jewish Resistance Fighter and Ravensbrück Survivor

By Selma van de Perre
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).
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