![]() ![]() In vivid, wrenching detail, Edith recalls a life of constant, almost paralyzing fear. And despite her protests and even her eventual confession that she was Jewish, he married her and kept her identity secret. There she met Werner Vetter, a Nazi party member who fell in love with her. Her boyfriend, Pepi, proved too terrified to help her, but a Christian friend was not: With the woman's identity papers in hand, Edith fled to Munich. ![]() ![]() Knowing she would become a hunted woman, Edith tore the yellow star from her clothing and went underground, scavenging for food and searching each night for a safe place to sleep. Edith Hahn was an outspoken young woman studying law in Vienna when the Gestapo forced Edith and her mother into a ghetto, issuing them papers branded with a "J." Soon, Edith was taken away to a labor camp, and though she convinced Nazi officials to spare her mother, when she returned home, her mother had been deported. ![]()
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