Story of Woman Who Survived Holocaust Is Subject of Book Discussion
Edith Hahn was an outspoken young woman in Vienna when the Gestapo forced her
into a ghetto and then into a labor camp. When she returned home months later,
she knew she would become a hunted woman and went underground. With the help of
a Christian friend, she emerged in Munich as Grete Denner. There she met Werner
Vetter, a Nazi Party member who fell in love with her. Despite Edith's protests
and even her eventual confession that she was Jewish, he married her and kept
her identity a secret.
Edith Hahn's story is the subject of "The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish
Woman Survived the Holocaust" (HarperCollins, 2000). Her co-author, Susan
Dworkin, will discuss and sign her book on Wednesday, March 18, at noon in the
Montpelier Room, sixth floor, Madison Building, 101 Independence Ave. S.E. This
Books & Beyond event, co-sponsored by the Library's Center for the Book and
Hebrew Language Table, is free and open to the public; no tickets are required.
Hahn survived the Holocaust and created a remarkable record in the
process. She saved every scrap of paper issued to her as well as photographs
she was able to shoot in the prison camps. Her papers are now part of the
permanent collection of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in
Washington.
Susan Dworkin has written half a dozen plays and published 14
books, including her biography of beauty queen/public servant Bess Myerson,
"Miss America, 1945: Bess Myerson and the Year That Changed Our Lives."
Press contact: Guy Lamolinara (202) 707-9217; [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Public contact: Center for the Book (202) 707-5221;
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
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