The Nazi Officer's Wife

Overview

In 1938 Edith Hahn was a Viennese law student - a "Christmas-tree Jew" with a gentile boyfriend. In 1942 she was living under an assumed name in Munich and married to Werner Vetter, a Nazi party member who was later drafted into the Wehrmacht. Based on Hahn's acclaimed memoir, "The Nazi Officer's Wife" is the riveting account of how she survived the Holocaust by posing as an Aryan hausfrau. Despite the risks, she kept painstaking records including real and falsified documents and photos of labor camps. These moving artifacts along with testimony from Hahn and her daughter bring this tale of survival resilience and redemption to life.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

May 9, 2003

Original language

English

Spoken languages

English

Countries

United States of America

Cast

Edith Hahn Beer,Susan Sarandon,Julia Ormond

Director

Liz Garbus

Writer

Edith Hahn Beer,Jack Youngelson

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0352621