Edith Hahn, a law student in Vienna, faced the horrors of the Nazi regime when the Gestapo forced her and her mother into a ghetto, marking their papers with a "J." After being taken to a labor camp, she managed to convince officials to spare her mother, but upon returning home, she found her mother had been deported. Realizing she was now a hunted woman, Edith removed her yellow star and went underground, struggling for food and safety each night. Her boyfriend, Pepi, was too frightened to assist her, but a Christian friend provided identity papers, allowing her to escape to Munich. There, she met Werner Vetter, a Nazi party member who fell in love with her. Despite her protests and eventual confession of her Jewish identity, he married her and kept her secret. Edith recounts her life filled with fear, detailing encounters with German officials questioning her lineage, her refusal of painkillers during childbirth to protect her secret, and the harrowing experience of hiding with her daughter while Russian soldiers ravaged the streets. Throughout her ordeal, Edith meticulously preserved her survival records, including real and falsified papers, letters from Pepi, and photographs from labor camps. These documents, now exhibited at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., weave a complex and ultimately triumphant narrative of resilience.
Susan Dworkin Ordre des livres (chronologique)
Susan Dworkin est une auteure qui écrit pour tous, abordant divers genres avec des récits captivants. Son œuvre comprend des drames historiques, comme la coécriture du best-seller The Nazi Officer's Wife, qui explore les thèmes de l'amour, de la terreur et du courage dans l'Allemagne d'Hitler. Elle explore également la science-fiction, comme en témoigne son roman The Commons, situé dans un futur où l'humanité lutte contre la famine. La perspicacité de Dworkin dans le domaine cinématographique est évidente dans Making Tootsie, un regard intime sur la création d'une comédie classique.
