The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocust

Edith Hahn Beer
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6 cassettes, UNABRIDGED. Edith Hahn Beer was a brilliant young Jewish law student from Vienna at the time of the Nazi triumph in Austria. After being forced into a slave labor camp, she adopted the identity of a Christian friend and became a "U-Boat," a Jewish fugitive hiding in the heart of the Third Reich. Werner Vetter, a Nazi Party member, fell in love with her and even after she told him her true identity, he kept her secret through the war. The collection of papers documenting her true story is now in the U.S. Holocaust museam in Washington, D.C.
Genres: NonfictionHistoryHolocaustMemoirBiographyWorld War IIHistoricalBook ClubWarAutobiography
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