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 labor camp, then ordered her to "resettle" in the east. Instead, she tore off her yellow star and went underground. Thanks to a brave friend, she reemerged in Munich as Grete Danner, a Christian working for the Red Cross. It was there that she met her future husband, a Nazi Party member who fell in love with her and swore to keep her true identity a secret.

In this remarkable memoir, Edith Hahn Beer describes the life of a Jew in hiding in plain sight in Nazi Germany. She writes in wrenching detail of the constant, almost paralyzing fear that she lived with every day, and of the intense psychic trauma involved in such a deception. Illustrated with hundreds of documents, papers, and letters -- which are part of the permanent collection at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial in Washington, D.C. -- that eloquently articulate her story, The Nazi Officer's Wife is an extraordinary record of survival: complex, troubling, and ultimately triumphant.