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

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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 Ediths 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. Yet despite the risks posed to her, Edith created a remarkable record of survival. This special edition of The Nazi Officers Wife, the first since Beers death in 2009 and featuring new material by co-writer Susan Dworkin , contains a photo insert of all the documents that so eloquently articulate Ediths storyincluding every document and set of papers issued to her, letters from her lost love, and photographs she managed to take inside the labor camps.

Capturing the constant terror of being a Jew hidden and living in Nazi Germany, The Nazi Officers Wife is a testament to one womans extraordinary courage.

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"A beautiful story of survival, an inspiring tale of overcoming fear." -- Washington Jewish Week

"In a well-written narrative that reads like a novel, she relates the escalating fear and humiliating indignities she and others endured, as well as the antisemitism of friends and neighbors. . . . Her story is important both as a personal testament and as an inspiring example of example of perseverance in the face of terrible adversity". -- Publishers Weekly

"A remarkable story." -- Jerusalem Post

"In setting down her own tale of surivival...Edith Han Beer provides a fascinating addition to the testimonial literature." -- Dallas Morning News

"This extraordinary book is destined to become one of the best Holocaust memoirs available." -- Library Journal

Author Bio

Born in Vienna in 1914, Edith Hahn Beep, currently resides in Netanya, Israel. She and Werner 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.