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Amid antisemitism's rise today, a woman in the Netherlands has made it her mission and life's work to share the stories of her grandparents — who survived the Holocaust and escaped death.
By Selma van de Perre; translated by Alice Tetley-Paul and Anna Asbury Scribner, 224 pages, $27 And still the stories keep coming. At 98, Selma van de Perre has published her first book, a memoir about her activities in the Dutch Resistance and her ordeals at Ravensbrück concentration camp. It has taken her a long time to be able to look back. Now that she has, the most appropriate response is gratitude – for her survival, her mostly fulfilling postwar life, and the details she adds to our remorselessly accumulating knowledge of the period. There are no literary flourishes in “My Name is...