IRB Intro #4

For my fourth IRB I hve chosen The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived The Holocaust. In this book, the author, Edith Hahn tells of how she survived the Holocaust as the wife of a Nazi party member in Munich. She was sent to a ghetto and then a labor camp by the Gestapo when she was a young woman. She managed to return home after a few months, but was forced underground for fear of being hunted. She created a new identity, Grete Denner, and moved to Munich where a Nazi Party member named Werner Vetter fell in love with her and kept her secret that she was Jewish. Edith tells of the suspician she and her family faced, how her husband was captured by Soviets and her house was bombed. However, despite all the dangers, she kept all records (including this partial autobiography) of her life and events which are now kept at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C.