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380: Edith Hahn Beer

Judge, Shoah Survivor, and Author

Born: 24 January 1914, Vienna, Austria

Died: 17 March 2009, London, United Kingdom

Edith’s autobiography is entitled The Nazi Officer’s Wife because she was in fact, just that.

She finished her schooling to become an attorney in Austria but before she could sit for her exams in Germany the Anschluss stopped her and all other Jews from moving into learned professions or attaining higher educations.

Edith spent thirteen months in a ghetto and forced labor camp.

Her sisters would escape the horror of the genocide by immigrating to then-Palestine, but her mother and at least a dozen other family members would perish.

After her release she received papers from her friend Christine which helped her escape into Germany where she began work as a seamstress and Red Cross Nurse—marrying the Nazi Officer Werner Vetter.

Before you can even ask, yes, Werner knew she was Jewish.

They married after Edith told him the truth (s