The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust
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| Rating | : | 4.12 (812 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B000ALAKX6 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 112 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-12-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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Nanci Haase said Such good. I was born in the late 19Such good I was born in the late 1930's. I heard about the war, the sirens warned us in our neighborhoods that we must stay in our homes, cover the windows so no light shines out, the Wardens walked the blocks to make sure all was secure Then the siren would sound & we could continue with our lives, This was in Chicago, Illinois After reading Edith Beer's story I have gone back in my memory at each m. 0's. I heard about the war, the sirens warned us in our neighborhoods that we must stay in our homes, cover the windows so no light shines out, the Wardens walked the blocks to make sure all was secure Then the siren would sound & we could continue with our lives, This was in Chicago, Illinois After reading Edith Beer's story I have gone back in my memory at each m. And best of all Wendi M. This true story is eminently readable. Told in the first person, the story draws you in, until you can hardly believe one woman could endure so much. Beer does not shy away from her decisions, or the complex and dangerous situation she found herself as a Jew in Vienna prior to and during the Second World War, but neither does she set herself up as a heroine with undue drama. She merely tell. "Another Holocaust surviver" according to Reading Rita. As the daughter of a holocaust surviver who lost his parents and siblings during WWII Poland, I thoroughly enjoyed reading Edith Hahn's memoir. She tells a story that is heart wrenching. A story not very different from my own father's.Living through war and its atrocities is mind boggling and bewildering. Being able be a "u-boat" as Edith was in order to survive the war is incredibly amazin
With the help of a Christian friend, she emerged in Munich as Grete Denner. She saved every document, as well as photographs she took inside labor camps. When she returned home months later, she knew she would become a hunted woman and went underground. 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. Edith Hahn was an outspoken young woman in Vienna when the Gestapo forced her into a ghetto and then into a slave labor camp. 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.. There she met Werner Vetter, a Nazi Party member who fell in love with her. Despite Edith
Using all their resources, her family bribed officials for exit visas for her two sisters, but Edith and her mother remained, due to lack of money and Edith's desire to be near her half-Jewish boyfriend, Pepi. From Publishers Weekly Born to a middle-class, nonobservant Jewish family, Beer was a popular teenager and successful law student when the Nazis moved into Austria. A Christian friend gave Edith her own identity papers, and Edith fled to Munich, where she met andAdespite her confession to him that she was JewishAmarried Werner Vetter, a Nazi party member. . Anxious about her mother, she obtained permission to return to Vienna, only to learn that he