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The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust - Softcover

Beer, Edith Hahn; Dworkin, Susan

 
9780062378088: The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust
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ISBN 10: 0062378082 ISBN 13: 9780062378088
Verlag: William Morrow Paperbacks, 2015

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#1 New York Times Bestseller

In this gripping WWII historical nonfiction, Edith Hahn was an outspoken young woman in Vienna when the Gestapo forced her into a ghetto and then into a slave labor camp. When she returned home months later, she knew she would become a hunted woman and went underground, a true story of survival by hiding in plain sight. With the help of a Christian friend, she emerged in Munich as Grete Denner. There she met Werner Vetter, a Nazi Party member who fell in love with her. Despite Edith’s protests and even her eventual confession that she was Jewish, he married her and kept her identity a secret.

In wrenching detail, Edith recalls a life of constant, almost paralyzing fear. She tells how German officials casually questioned the lineage of her parents; how during childbirth she refused all painkillers, afraid that in an altered state of mind she might reveal something of her past; and how, after her husband was captured by the Soviets, she was bombed out of her house and had to hide while drunken Russian soldiers raped women on the street.

Despite the risk it posed to her life, Edith created a remarkable record of survival. She saved every document, as well as photographs she took inside labor camps. Now part of the permanent collection at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., these hundreds of documents, several of which are included in this volume, form the fabric of this unforgettable Holocaust survivor memoir―complex, troubling, and ultimately triumphant.

Based on a trove of personal documents, this is the true story of one woman’s life at the heart of the Nazi regime―a daily tightrope walk of love, terror, and deception.

  • A Secret Identity: To escape the Gestapo, Edith Hahn becomes Grete Denner, living underground in Munich where a single mistake could mean death.
  • A Dangerous Secret: She falls for Werner Vetter, a Nazi Party member who marries her knowing she is Jewish, risking everything to protect the woman he loves.
  • Unthinkable Choices: Fearing she might reveal her past under medication, Edith refuses all painkillers during childbirth, a testament to her incredible courage and resolve.
  • A Firsthand Account: Against all odds, she saved hundreds of personal documents, from identity papers to photographs taken in labor camps, now part of the permanent collection at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Born in Vienna in 1914, Edith Hahn Beer lived in Netanua, Israel, until her death in 2009. She and Warner Vetter divorced in 1947. Her daughter, Angela, lives in London and is believed to be the only Jew born in a Reich hospital in 1944.



Acclaimed writer Susan Dworkin is the author of many books, including the memoir The Nazi Officer’s Wife with Edith Hahn Beer, the novel Stolen Goods, the novel-musical The Book of Candy, the self-help book The Ms. Guide to a Woman’s Health with Dr. Cynthia W. Cooke, and the film studies Making Tootsie and Double De Palma. She wrote the Peabody Award-winning TV documentary She's Nobody’s Baby: American Women in the 20th Century and was a longtime contributing editor to Ms. Magazine. She lives in New Jersey.

Bess Myerson now devotes her time mainly to advocacy in the area of women’s health research and treatment, consumerism, education, and peace in the Middle East. She is on the National Advisory Board of the State of Israel Bonds, a member of the “Share” Board and a trained facilitator working with ovarian cancer survivors, and one of the founders of the Museum of Jewish Heritage. She lives in New York City.

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Edith Hahn was an outspoken young woman in Vienna when the Gestapo forced her into a ghetto and then into a slave labor camp. When she returned home months later, she knew she would become a hunted woman and went underground. With the help of a Christian friend, she emerged in Munich as Grete Denner. There she met Werner Vetter, a Nazi Party member who fell in love with her. Despite Edith's protests and even her eventual confession that she was Jewish, he married her and kept her identity a secret.

In wrenching detail, Edith recalls a life of constant, almost paralyzing fear. She tells how German officials casually questioned the lineage of her parents; how during childbirth she refused all painkillers, afraid that in an altered state of mind she might reveal something of her past; and how, after her husband was captured by the Soviets, she was bombed out of her house and had to hide while drunken Russian soldiers raped women on the street.

Despite the risk it posed to her life, Edith created a remarkable record of survival. She saved every document, as well as photographs she took inside labor camps. Now part of the permanent collection at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., these hundreds of documents, several of which are included in this volume, form the fabric of a gripping new chapter in the history of the Holocaust—complex, troubling, and ultimately triumphant.

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Verlag
William Morrow Paperbacks
Erscheinungsdatum
2015
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0062378082
ISBN 13 
9780062378088
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
352
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