~ Trade Paperback
~ Winner of the Audie Award for Biography/Memoir - 2004
The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust
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, so she went underground.
She emerged in Munich as 'Grete Denner'. There she met Werner Vetter, a Nazi Party member who fell in love with her, and despite Edith's protests (and even her eventual confession that she was Jewish), he married her anyway and kept her identity a secret.
"Edith Han Beer's story is important both as a personal testament and as an inspiring example of example of perseverance in the face of terrible adversity.” -- Publishers Weekly