The Nazi Officer's Wife - How one Jewish woman survived the holocaust (Paperback, New edition)

In 1938, the author was studying law in Vienna when she was told: 'You will not be taking the examination, Edith. You are no longer welcome in our university.' After five years of study, everything fell apart. With the new Nazi regime began years of struggle and fear for Edith, an outspoken Jew who soon became a hunted woman. When her mother was deported, she went underground and lived from day to day - her boyfriend, Pepi, too afraid to help her. Finally she was lent papers by a friend and flees to Munich, where she assumed a false identity and met Werner Vetter, a Nazi party member. He married her, and kept her secret safe. Thereafter, the climate of fear only worsened; Hahn recounts how she refused to be sedated while giving birth, afraid she might give away her Jewish identity; later, Werner is sent to Siberia leaving her once more alone and in terror. This is a fascinating tale, candidly told, with original photographs and documents. (Kirkus UK)

Edith Hahn was a young law student in Vienna when Hitler absorbed Austria in 1938. Madly in love with a young man called Pepi who was half-Jewish, she was separated from him and sent to a forced labour camp. So began the extraordinary chain of events that led to her return to Vienna, her life as a 'hidden' Jew with an identity given to her by a German girlfriend, her marriage to a Nazi who knew she was Jewish and protected her, her intervention through her husband on behalf of Pepi, and her life at the end of the war in Eastern Germany where she was appointed a judge over the persecutors of her people. She fled the Communist regime there because of the conflicting emotions she felt for these who had NOT informed on her. She settled and married in London, and now lives in Israel, aged 84.
 

General

Imprint:	Abacus
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	March 2001
Authors:	Edith Hahn Beer • Susan Dworkin
Dimensions:	198 x 126 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	305
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-349-11379-1
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General Books > Humanities > History > European history > From 1900 > Second World War > The Holocaust Books > History > European history > From 1900 > Second World War > The Holocaust Books > Biography > General
LSN:	0-349-11379-3
Barcode:	9780349113791

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