The Nazi Officer's Wife

How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust

By: Edith Hahn Beer, Susan Dworkin

Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat

Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins

Publisher's summary

Edith Hahn was an outspoken young woman in Vienna when the Gestapo forced her into a ghetto and then into a slave labor camp. When she returned home months later, she knew she would become a hunted woman, so she went underground.

She emerged in Munich as "Grete Denner". There she met Werner Vetter, a Nazi Party member who fell in love with her. Despite Edith's protests and even her eventual confession that she was Jewish, he married her and kept her identity secret.

©1999 Pritchards Trustees Ltd. as Trustee of the Edith Hahn Trust. All Rights Reserved. (P)2003 Jewish Contemporary Classics, Inc.

An Amazing Story & Narration

I felt as if I was sitting across the table from Edith listening to her relive her story with all of its emotion, stress, and fear. I had read excellent reviews of the book and am so glad that I listened to it instead of read it. The narrator made each character's voice so true and unique. Each sigh and pause was perfect. I could hardly stop listening.

You will not be disappointed!

The Nazi Officer's Wife delivers

Riveting story. Well told and well narrated.

Great Narrator

I have read The Nazi Officer's Wife before, even though it was my second time, I enjoyed it immensely. I think what made this reading of the book so special for me was the narrator. I would have thought it was Edith Hahn Beer reading it had I not seen that Barbara Rosenblat narrated it.

Incredible Story

Loved this book and the narrator! Buy and listen to it- you won’t be disappointed. My husband even liked it!

Remarkable story, Remarkable performance

A haunting, important story of survival, without self pity. Highly recommended. The narrator was wonderful.

Not what I expected

I’ve had this book on my Audible wish list for probably two years and did not purchase it because I thought it would be too terrible to read. I even have a written copy somewhere that I could not bring myself to read.

This book is an account of one Jewish woman’s survival in Germany during WW2 but it is not a brutal account of horrific events. The nazi officer’s wife survived by living in a bit of a fantasy world. It does show that a certain portion of the German population truly did not know the extent of the atrocities committed by the German Reich. I am surprised by her positive attitude, by her courage and her ability to “make lemonade from a lemon.” She was lucky, if luck is real, and most of all resourceful. I just don’t know if I would have survived, but the world is fortunate that this one woman survived and found her people.

The Nazi Officer's Wife

I loved everything about The Nazi Officer's Wife! The story itself was amazing but the narration by Barbara Rosenblat was captivating!

Exceptional Story

I loved this book. I felt as though I was sitting at a kitchen table listening to this story being told to me. I highly recommend listening to this book. You will not be disappointed.

very interesting book! I could not stop listenning

Where does The Nazi Officer's Wife rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

among the top 5 I ever listened

Who was your favorite character and why?

this is a kind of biography, so the protagonist is the jewish girl who had to survive in nazi Germany

What does Barbara Rosenblat bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

Narration turned a good book into an espetacular one. Narration added life to the book

If you could rename The Nazi Officer's Wife, what would you call it?

Surviving under disguise

Any additional comments?

Some more info about her life after leaving East Germany would enrich the book

An extraordinary read.

This first person account of Edith, a Jewish woman living through World War II as a “U-Boat”, a Jew living in plain sight in Nazi Germany, is one of the most compelling narratives I have read in a long, long time. This true story had me on the edge of my seat and the performance by Barbara Rosenblat was perfect.