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The Nazi officer's wife / directed by Liz Garbus ; produced by Liz Garbus ... [and others] ; written and co-produced by Jack Youngelson ; produced by Moxie Firecracker Films, Inc. and Trillion Entertainment, Inc. for the A & E Network.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublication details: [New York] : A&E : Distributed by New Video, c2003.Description: 1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 inISBN:
  • 0767056272 :
Other title:
  • Subtitle on container: How one Jewish woman survived the Holocaust
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 940.53/18/092 B 22
Production credits:
  • Editor, Eric Seuel Davies ; photography, Daniel B. Gold ; music, Sheldon Mirowitz.
Narrated by Susan Sarandon ; readings from Edith Hahn Beer's autobiography by Julia Ormond.Summary: One Jewish woman's true story of surviving the Holocaust by marrying a Nazi officer.
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DVD Phillipsburg Free Public Library DVDs New Movies DVD 940.5318 NAZ Available 36748002485052
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Filmmaker Liz Garbus (The Farm: Angola, USA) documents the extraordinary story of Edith Hahn in The Nazi Officer's Wife. Using old newsreel footage, personal photos, and interviews with Hahn, her daughter Angela, and various acquaintances, with narration by Susan Sarandon and Julia Ormond (who reads excerpts from Hahn's autobiography), the film explores how Hahn, a Jewish woman living in Vienna during the Nazi takeover of Austria, survived. The film begins the tale with Hahn's childhood, including her education, the death of her father, and her college romance with a half-Jewish intellectual. As the Nazis grew in power, and Hahn's sisters fled for Palestine, he insisted that they would be safe in Vienna. Soon, Hahn, a law student, found herself in a slave labor camp. By the time she returned to Vienna, her mother had been sent to a concentration camp in Poland. Certain to be deported herself, Hahn chose instead to remove the yellow star from her clothing and go into hiding. Finding help from the unlikeliest of sources (including two prominent members of the Nazi party,) Hahn took on a new identity as a young Aryan woman, and left Vienna, traveling to Munich, in the heart of the Third Reich, where she got a job working as a nurse's aide for the Red Cross. There, visiting a museum, she met a bright and well-spoken Nazi, Werner Vetter, who approached her. Soon, against Hahn's better judgment, the two had started a romance, which eventually led to an unlikely marriage and a child. All the while, Hahn kept up her disguise to all but her husband, even suppressing her own vital personality, and taking on the role of a subservient Aryan housewife. ~ Josh Ralske, Rovi

Originally produced as a documentary film in 2003.

Editor, Eric Seuel Davies ; photography, Daniel B. Gold ; music, Sheldon Mirowitz.

Narrated by Susan Sarandon ; readings from Edith Hahn Beer's autobiography by Julia Ormond.

One Jewish woman's true story of surviving the Holocaust by marrying a Nazi officer.

DVD; Dolby Digital stereo.

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