May 9, 2003
Release Date

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The Nazi Officer's Wife (2003)

Name: The Nazi Officer's Wife
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2003-05-09

1h 30m

Running Time

May 9, 2003
Release Date

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Plot.

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.

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Cast & Crew.

Edith Hahn Beer

Herself / Novel

Julia Ormond

Edith Hahn (voice)

Susan Sarandon

Narrator (voice)

Liz Garbus

Director

Jack Youngelson

Screenplay

Rory Kennedy

Producer

Christina Zilber

Producer

Laurent Zilber

Producer

Sheldon Mirowitz

Composer

Daniel B. Gold

Cinematographer

Details.

Release Date
May 9, 2003

Status
Released

Running Time
1h 30m

Genres
Documentary

Last updated: 2025-02-09

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Wiki.

The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust is a 1999 autobiography by Austrian-born Edith Hahn-Beer. Written with the help of Susan Dworkin, the book's first edition was published by Rob Weibach Books and William Morrow and Company. A documentary film based on the source material and starring Hahn-Beer herself was released in 2003. A revised version of the book was published in 2009.