Edith H. Beer

Susan Dworkin

#1 New York Times Bestseller 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 Edith's 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. 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. She saved every document, as well as photographs she took inside labor camps. 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.

How One Jewish Woman Survived The Holocaust

The Nazi Officer's Wife

How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust

Edith Hahn Beer

a scientist's struggle to preserve the world's harvest

The Viking in the wheat field

Het leven van een Oostenrijks-joodse vrouw die tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog trouwt met een Duitse legerofficier om aan de jodenvervolgingen te ontkomen.

De oorlogsbruid

A Film Study with Dustin Hoffman and Sydney Pollack

Making Tootsie

A Film Study with Brian De Palma

Double De Palma

Jeanne White

The mother of Ryan White, a young hemophiliac who contracted the AIDS virus, describes her struggles with ignorance and her son's determination

A Mother's Story of Love, Loss and Renewal

Weeding Out the Tears

Susan Dworkin

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