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Title: The Nazi Officer's Wife : How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust by Edith H. Beer ISBN: 0-688-17776-X Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 November, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.52 (42 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A STORY OF SURVIVAL DESPITE THE NAZIS...
Comment: This is an interesting work of non-fiction that, at times, reads as if it were a novel. Based upon the recollection of a secular Austrian Jew, a young woman named Edith Hahn, the book tells the reader her intriguing story. During the Holocaust, she married a member of the Nazi party whom she had told she was Jewish. He married her and kept her secret. In the waning days of the war, her husband was drafted into the German army and ended up a prisoner of war for a time. Upon his return, he found a crumbling German infra-structure, the Nazis out of favor, and his Jewish wife asserting herself as she really was, a well-educated, independent woman.
This is essentially a book about Ms. Hahn's life just before, during, and just after World War II. It tells the reader about her life in Austria before the Nazis took over. She was a well-educated woman studying to be a lawyer, when the Gestapo put an end to her professional aspirations. She was sent to work at a labor camp and while doing so, her mother was deported to a concentration camp, before they could be re-united. Seeing that the writing was on the wall for the Jews of Austria, she went underground with the help of a Christian friend and fled to Germany. It was while she lived an underground life in Germany under an assumed name, that she met Werner Vetter, a Nazi party member who fell in love with her. Notwithstanding her confession that she was Jewish, he married her and never betrayed her.
She tells a tale of sublimation of self in order to survive the rigors of the policies of Nazi Germany that were imposed upon Austria, her country and a land where anti-Semitism was rife. She tells a tale of sublimation of self in order to survive her marriage to a person whose views were so opposite her own. Her fears of discovery were so acute that during childbirth, she refused to take any pain medication or anesthesia for fear of betraying her own self while under sedation. Her only child, a daughter, Angelika, is believed to be the only child born of a Jewish mother in a Reich hospital in 1944. Though Edith loved her husband, she never felt free to be herself until the war was over. Hers is a story of immobilizing fear and survival.
This is an intriguing perspective on the Holocaust from the voice of one who who was in a singular position during the latter half of the war, as she was a Jew in Germany.
Rating: 5
Summary: A deeply moving story
Comment: Though I consumed this book in a matter of hours, I found it so emotionally affecting that I had to stop and take a deep breath now and then, walk around the block, before I could continue reading. All the more compelling for its simple, honest style, this is a tale of extraordinary courage and perseverance on the part of Edith Hahn Beer. Would that more of her Austrian and German neighbors (of the "Aryan" stripe) had had a greater share of the integrity displayed by this woman. Her life irreparably fractured by events that remain utterly vivid and disturbing 50-some years after the fact, she somehow manages an astonishing degree of objectivity in her assessment of the evil forces arrayed against her and every other European Jew in those very dark decades. Definitely not a story for the fainthearted, this disturbing book and others like it need to be read and reread precisely to help prevent their repetition in the future.
Rating: 5
Summary: Amazing True Story!
Comment: This book is an amazing, true story about a courageous lady! I couldn't put the book down once I started reading!
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Title: The Seamstress: A Memoir of Survival by Sara Tuvel Bernstein, Louise Loots Thornton, Marlene bernst Samuels, Edgar M. Bronfman, Marlene Bernstein Samuels ISBN: 0425166309 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: May, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: To See You Again: A True Story of Love in a Time of War by Betty Schimmel, Joyce Gabriel ISBN: 0452280710 Publisher: Plume Pub. Date: 03 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: In My Hands : Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer by Jennifer Armstrong, Irene Gut Opdyke ISBN: 0385720327 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 17 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: All But My Life : A Memoir by Gerda Weissmann Klein ISBN: 0809015803 Publisher: Hill & Wang Pub Pub. Date: 31 March, 1995 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Rena's Promise by Rena Kornreich Gelissen, Rena Kornreich Gelisssen, Heather Dune Macadam ISBN: 0807070718 Publisher: Beacon Press Pub. Date: 30 October, 1996 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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