The Nazi Officer's Wife - How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust

Zusatztext All memoirs of this period are worthwhile! but! in this case! doubly so. Informationen zum Autor Edith Hahn Beer and Susan Dworkin Klappentext Edith 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.How one Jewish woman survived the Holocaust - through marriage to a Nazi officer. Zusammenfassung How one Jewish woman survived the Holocaust - through marriage to a Nazi officer.

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Edith Hahn Beer and Susan Dworkin

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• Authors: Edith Hahn Beer, Dworkin, Susan Dworkin, Dworkin Susan, Hah, Edith Hahn, Edith Hahn Beer
• Publisher: Abacus
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.2001
• EAN: 9780349113791
• ISBN: 978-0-349-11379-1
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 198 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book; austria, European History, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, Autobiography: general, HISTORY / Holocaust, HISTORY / Europe / Austria & Hungary, Second World War, c 1940 to c 1949, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust, History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / European Theater