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

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Edith Hahn used to be 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 change into a hunted woman and went underground. With the assistance 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 Edith’s protests and even her eventual confession that she used to be Jewish, he married her and kept her identity a secret.

In wrenching detail, Edith recalls a life of constant, almost paralyzing fear. She tells how German officials casually questioned the lineage of her parents; how right through childbirth she refused all painkillers, afraid that in an altered mind-set she might reveal something of her past; and how, after her husband used to be captured by the Soviets, she used to be bombed out of her house and had to hide even as drunken Russian soldiers raped women in the street.

Despite the risk it posed to her life, Edith created a remarkable record of survival. She saved every document, in addition to photographs she took inside labor camps. Now a 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 in the long run triumphant.

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