FLORY: A Miraculous Story of Survival
Harper Collins / Publication date: April 2008

"Flory Van Beek lived through the Nazi occupation as part of a large Jewish family in the Netherlands and now, safely ensconced in Newport Beach, Calif., has written her memoir. It's an amazing account -- and one thing it makes you want to do is head straight for Holland and shake everybody's hand. The Dutch, it seems, simply weren't up for being told what to do by anyone, especially a flock of crackpot Nazis."
- The Washington Post

"...this (story) has intrinsic value as a Holocaust survivor testimony."
- Publishers Weekly

"The further away we get from the years of the Holocaust, the more necessary it is to recount what happened. There is no better way than by the bearing witness of survivors. Flory A. Van Beek takes us with her on her journey from happy childhood to being a Jew in Nazi-occupied Holland. We share her experiences as she struggles to survive and are imbued with her spirit to do so. Flory’s story is filled with history, heartache and hope and is an important contribution to the understanding of the horrors of the Holocaust and the spirit of survival."
- Abraham H. Foxman, Holocaust survivor and National Director, Anti-Defamation League

"A vivid story of the Holocaust and its few survivors."
- Booklist

“In so remarkable a manner, direct, without reflection or editorializing, Flory Van Beek presents her nearly six years surviving the Nazi death machine. While underscoring the horrors and traumas endured both by the body and spirit, without compare, this narrative vividly captures the emotional anguish caused by the quiet terror of the complete unknown”.
- Rabbi Jay A. Strear, American Jewish University

"If you read this book, prepare for a new voice. It is unlike the voice of other Holocaust memoirs heavily layered, even overwrought, by the un-assimilable knowledge of the destruction in its wholeness".
- Rabbi Hillel Goldberg, Editor in Chief, Intermountain Jewish News

"Those that survived and those that helped them survive are remarkable heroes with an important story to tell…and Flory is one of those heroes who tells her story with great accuracy, simplicity, and poignancy! A must read for anyone with the slightest interest in the human experience."
 - Marc Pariser, Jewish Television Network
 

Contact Flory Van Beek's Literary Representative:
Daniel Sladek Entertainment Corp.
323-934-9268 dansladek@aol.com