The Nazi Officer's Wife

from Zumbanista

An amazing account of Edith Beer's survival in Austria and Germany during WW II. Although she had it better than many European Jews, her story is hair raising and heart rending all the same. She tells about her pre war existence as a young secular Jewish university student studying law in Vienna....

from a-shelf-apart

This was a really interesting book, about a Jewish woman from Vienna who narrowly escaped death in a concentration camp, assumed the identity of a Christian friend, married a German officer, and finally got her law degree at the end of the war and helped the Russians begin to establish a working ...

from sbenne3

This is a moving memoir about a Jewish woman that survives WWII by taking on an identity that represents all that is evil to her, her family, and all Jews. It is fascinating to read her account of survival. I have read a lot of books on this subject and this one is worth a read as it has a point ...

from lamour

This an amazing story of a Jewish woman who survived the war living in Germany by hiding her heritage and race from the Nazis. Eventually, a German Officer fell in love with her and married her even though he knew she was Jewish. She survived work camps, Allied bombing, food shortages and near mi...

from briandrewz

This was a completely different type of Holocaust memoir. Edith Hahn Beer tells the story of her life in Vienna before the war. She tells of her first love, her education, her career aspirations. These were dashed at the onset of World War II. Though she didn't have to endure a concentration camp...