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Summary: Five stars for history that must be remembered
Review: This book gave me courage to live my own life more fully. It is a vivid portrayal of breathtaking anxiety lived, day-by-day, in a nightmare world. It wasn't easy to get into, hard to put down once I did. Thanks to a brave woman and author, who has made a great contribution to the "never forget" archives of the Holocaust.
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Summary: Amazing True Story!
Review: This book is an amazing, true story about a courageous lady! I couldn't put the book down once I started reading!
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Summary: A Book That Proves That Real Life Is Stranger Than Fiction.
Review: This book is an extremely well told story of a woman who, in order to survive The Holocaust, ends up marrying a man who ends up as a Nazi Officer.Sorry to be crass, but this book is a real page turner. Edith is an intelligent, warm & witty soul who had an extraordinary experience & luckily for us, has been brave enough to look back & write it all down. It has an intimate quality, due largely to the fact that Ms. Hahn Beer has written it for her daughter who, born in a Nazi hospital, in 1944, wanted to know exactly what happened. Can you blame her? If you are interested in Nazi Germany or The Holocaust this is a book you won't regret buying. In fact, I'm certain you'll remember it for the rest of your life. First Rate!
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Summary: Important Read
Review: This book is an incredible revelation as to the survival of one young Jewish girl/woman during the Hitler regime. Along with other biographies of survivors of the Holocaust, this book shows great courage and strong spirit. The life this woman lived and the choices she made in order to survive is a testament to everyone and an important read for every generation to come, in order that those times and those experiences are never forgotten in history.
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Summary: A wonderful book of courage, determination and survival
Review: This book is more interesting than the title suggests. I found myself totally involved in the narrator's struggle to survive Nazi Germany and amazed by her indomitable spirit. I disagree with some of the reviewers here on Amazon.com in that I do NOT think one should judge Edith Hahn (the author)'s personal choices during that difficult period. What's important, really, is that, having survived the Holocaust through her sheer wits, Edith Hahn bore witness not only to the horrors of the Holocaust, but to the actions, reactions, morality and the lack thereof, of ordinary Germans. Fascinating.
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Summary: Compelling bio
Review: This book makes you think long and hard about what you would have done in a similar situation...to deny who you are to save yourself. It's a moral quandary.
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Summary: one woman's survival
Review: This book tells the amazing story of one woman's survival against all odds. Given the subject matter, you might expect the story to be depressing. However, while the story is poignant, very real, and sad at times, the reader is left with the impression that the human spirit can overcome any adversity.
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Summary: Moving
Review: This book was so moving to me. I have read a few books on first hand accounts of the Third Reich but never by a woman. I have never read anything like this book. I applaud Edith and her efforts to recount such a dark time in her life. A true triumph of the human spirit is what carried her through the war.
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Summary: A Very Moving Book
Review: This is an excellent book. I couldn't put it down and I felt like I was living right along with the author. I was just as charmed by Werner as she was and I was horrified to see how he treated her when he came home. Even though their marrige ended badly, I think that they really grew to love each other. It's an amazing amazing story...
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Summary: A STORY OF SURVIVAL DESPITE THE NAZIS...
Review: This is an interesting work of non-fiction that, at times, reads as if it were a novel. Based upon the recollection of a secular Austrian Jew, a young woman named Edith Hahn, the book tells the reader her intriguing story. During the Holocaust, she married a member of the Nazi party whom she had told she was Jewish. He married her and kept her secret. In the waning days of the war, her husband was drafted into the German army and ended up a prisoner of war for a time. Upon his return, he found a crumbling German infra-structure, the Nazis out of favor, and his Jewish wife asserting herself as she really was, a well-educated, independent woman. This is essentially a book about Ms. Hahn's life just before, during, and just after World War II. It tells the reader about her life in Austria before the Nazis took over. She was a well-educated woman studying to be a lawyer, when the Gestapo put an end to her professional aspirations. She was sent to work at a labor camp and while doing so, her mother was deported to a concentration camp, before they could be re-united. Seeing that the writing was on the wall for the Jews of Austria, she went underground with the help of a Christian friend and fled to Germany. It was while she lived an underground life in Germany under an assumed name, that she met Werner Vetter, a Nazi party member who fell in love with her. Notwithstanding her confession that she was Jewish, he married her and never betrayed her. She tells a tale of sublimation of self in order to survive the rigors of the policies of Nazi Germany that were imposed upon Austria, her country and a land where anti-Semitism was rife. She tells a tale of sublimation of self in order to survive her marriage to a person whose views were so opposite her own. Her fears of discovery were so acute that during childbirth, she refused to take any pain medication or anesthesia for fear of betraying her own self while under sedation. Her only child, a daughter, Angelika, is believed to be the only child born of a Jewish mother in a Reich hospital in 1944. Though Edith loved her husband, she never felt free to be herself until the war was over. Hers is a story of immobilizing fear and survival. This is an intriguing perspective on the Holocaust from the voice of one who who was in a singular position during the latter half of the war, as she was a Jew in Germany.
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