Edith+Hahn+Beer

=__//**Edith Hahn Beer**//__=
 * **Born in 1914**
 * **Leopold and Klothilde Hahn were her parents**
 * **Although Jewish, her family never really practiced their religion**
 * **Grew up in Vienna, Austria**
 * **She studied law in the early 1930s when she was in her early 20s**
 * **Her family received an eviction notice banishing them from their home and into a ghetto**
 * **Soon after the ghetto, she was set to a camp as a slave labourer**
 * **Though she was told it was only for 6 months, she stayed 1 1/2 years**
 * **When she found out her mother was being sent to Poland, she got permission to visit her, though her intentions were to stay. but was two weeks late. She never saw her mother again.**
 * **After her mother was gone, Edith ripped off her Star of David (which would have gotten her killed if a Nazi had seen it) and escaped off the train home**
 * **Over the next few months, she stayed with many people and became a Nazi fugitive**
 * **She never stayed in one place for more than one night**
 * **Her friends told her it would be easier if she took up a new identity**
 * **She told the officials that her identification papers were lost in a boating accident and got duplicates of another friends' identification**
 * **She moved to Munich**
 * **She was now known as Grete Denner, a poor, young, uneducated nurse working for the Red Cross**
 * **Met Werner Vetter in an art museum**
 * **He turned how to be a Nazi Officer**
 * **When he later proposed, she confessed that she was a jew, but he didn't care**
 * **She soon gave birth to a baby girl whom she named Maria Angelika, or Angela**
 * **Werner was sent to a Russian labour camp**
 * **She took her Jewish identification card and got a court order to change her name since the war was supposively ending**
 * **When Werner returned, he did not like to have a wife so busy with a job so he left her for his 1st wife**
 * **The Russians soon found about her through her job and wanted to recruit her to the secret police**
 * **She declined and moved to Easy Germany with Angela**
 * **She later found her sister in England and went to live with her**
 * **She met a man named Fred Beer who was also a survivor of the Holocaust and had seen his own mother killed in front of him**
 * **In 1957 she married this Jewish jewelery merchant and raised Angela as a Jew**
 * **Fred died in 1984, only 5 years later**
 * **She moved to Israel**
 * **Angela is believed to be the only Jew born in Reich Hospital in 1944**
 * **Angela had visited Werner once in a while, but after he hit her because sahe was not attending Chrisitian school, they broke contact with him**
 * **She is now 93 years old**
 * She recently wrote an autobiography entitled "The Nazi Officer's Wife"**
 * She recently wrote an autobiography entitled "The Nazi Officer's Wife"**

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