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"Edith Hahn was an outspoken young woman studying law in Vienna when the Gestapo forced Edith and her mother into a ghetto, issuing them papers branded with a J. Edith was taken away to a labor camp, and when she returned home months later, she found her mother had been deported. Knowing she would become a hunted woman, Edith tore the yellow star from her clothing and went underground, scavenging for food and searching each night for a safe place to sleep.
Her boyfriend, Pepi, proved too terrified to help her, but a Christian friend was not. Using the woman's identity papers, Edith fled to Munich. There she met Werner Vetter, a Nazi Party member who fell in love with her. Despite her protests and even her eventual confession that she was Jewish, he married her and kept her identity secret."--BOOK JACKET.
"In wrenching detail, Edith recalls a life of constant, almost paralyzing fear.
She tells of German officials who casually questioned the lineage of her parents; of how, when giving birth to her daughter, she refused all painkillers, afraid that in an altered state of mind she might reveal something of her past; and of how, after her husband was captured by the Soviet army and sent to Siberia, Edith was bombed out of her house and had to hide at night with her daughter in a closet while drunken Russian soldiers raped women on the street."--BOOK JACKET.
"Yet despite the risk it posed to her life, Edith created a remarkable record of survival. She saved every document and set of papers issued to her, letters she received from her lost love, Pepi, and photographs she managed to take inside labor camps. Now part of the permanent collections at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., these hundreds of documents form the fabric of an epic story - complex, troubling, and ultimately triumphant."--BOOK JACKET.
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The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust
October 1999, Rob Weisbach Books
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068816689X 9780688166892
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