De Perre explained that they were short of people helping in the resistance because so many of them were already being imprisoned or had to go into hiding themselves.

In 1983 Van de Perre was awarded the Resistance Memorial Cross, a medal awarded in the Netherlands to members of the Dutch resistance during the Second World War. The Madurodam is a miniature park and tourist attraction in the Hague built by the parents of George Maduro, a Jewish war hero in the Netherlands who was killed in the Dachau concentration camp. (Paulo Amorim/VW Pics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)De Perre did not stop resisting the Nazis even while she was imprisoned. When they put her to work, she made some of her work unproductive. De Perre said she intentionally assembled the masks in such a way that they would come loose by the time they would be used.

Selma van de Perre, neé Velleman, was born in the Netherlands on 7 June, 1922. She was the child of liberal Jewish parents, had three siblings and lived in Amsterdam. I definitely think Selma kept the readers at arm's reach in this book, and I'm not sure if I really understood who she was deep down (for example Edith Eger's The Choice, I really felt like I knew Edith and her personality). But also I find this extremely understandable as Selma is telling us about an extremely traumatic time in her life that she might not want to deep dive into too much,Dieses Buch soll Zeugnis unseres Kampfes gegen die Unmenschlichkeit sein. Denn die Grausamkeiten des Zweiten Weltkrieges und die mutigen Taten der Menschen, die ihnen stolz entgegen getreten sind, dürfen nie in Vergessenheit geraten. Mit meinem Buch hoffe ich, einen Beitrag zum Gedenken daran zu leisten." - Selma van de Perre, "Mein Name ist Selma" Dan de vorm. Ik behandel dit boek met mijn literaire leesclub, dus moet ik er ook naar kijken als een literaire roman. Maar dat niveau vind ik matig. De redacteur en/of vertaler hebben niet echt hun best gedaan om de herinneringen van Selma bij te schaven tot romankwaliteit.