The Nazi Officer's Wife
How one Jewish woman survived the holocaust
(Author) Edith Hahn BeerEdith 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.
Edith Hahn Beer
Edith Hahn Beer was a Jewish Austrian Holocaust survivor and author of the memoir "The Nazi Officer's Wife." Her writing style is raw and poignant, capturing the horrors of the Holocaust with stark honesty. Beer's work sheds light on the resilience of the human spirit in the face of unimaginable adversity.
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