Edith Hahn-Beer Poradie kníh (chronologicky)

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.

V nemocnici ma sestričky zaviedli do veľkej miestnosti plnej rodičiek. Lekár nariadil sestričke: „Ešte chvíľu počkajte. Potom jej dáme sedatívum.“ Sústredila som sa na zvládanie bolesti, no spomenula som si na pacientov po operáciách a ženy pod sedatívami pri pôrode, ktoré rozprávali o veciach, ktoré by ich mohli usvedčiť. Uvedomila som si, že nemôžem užiť nič proti bolesti, lebo by som sa mohla dostať do delíria. „Všetci, ktorých miluješ, zomrú pre tvoju slabosť,“ pomyslela som si. Keď sestrička vstúpila s ihlou, zachrapčala som: „Nie. Som mladá a silná, nepotrebujem nič proti bolesti.“ Vtedy som si prvýkrát želala zomrieť. Inteligentná mladá Viedenčanka Edith Hahnová snívala o tom, že sa stane sudkyňou a prinesie spravodlivosť. Po anšluse Rakúska a nástupe nacistov sa jej rodina ocitla v gete a ona musela otročiť v pracovných táboroch. Po návrate domov si trúfalo odpárala žltú hviezdu, získala falošné doklady a začala sa skrývať v nacistickej ríši. Jedného dňa stretla Wernera, člena nacistickej strany, a zamilovala sa. Začítajte sa do príbehu, ktorý ukazuje, že milióny obetí holokaustu nie sú len čísla bez tvárí. Každý z nich mal svoj osud, túžil po láskyplnom a pokojnom živote a splnení svojich snov.