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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 and went underground. With the help of a Christian friend, 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 a secret.
In wrenching detail, Edith recalls a life of constant, almost paralyzing fear. She tells how German officials casually questioned the lineage of her parents; how during childbirth she refused all painkillers, afraid that in an altered state of mind she might reveal something of her past; and how, after her husband was captured by the Soviets, she was bombed out of her house and had to hide while drunken Russian soldiers raped women on the street.
Despite the risk it posed to her life, Edith created a remarkable record of survival. She saved every document, as well as photographs she took inside labor camps. Now part of the permanent collection at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., these hundreds of documents, several of which are included in this volume, form the fabric of a gripping new chapter in the history of the Holocaust—complex, troubling, and ultimately triumphant.

The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust

Biographies & Memoirs

Beer, Edith Hahn

Dworkin, Susan

Community & Culture

William Morrow Paperbacks

The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived The Holocaust

“A beautiful story of survival, an inspiring tale of overcoming fear.” —Washington Jewish Week
The Gestapo forced Edith Hahn into a ghetto and then into a slave labor camp. When she returned home to Vienna months later, she’d become a hunted woman and went underground. With the help of a Christian friend, 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 her eventual confession that she was Jewish, he married her and kept her identity a secret.
In wrenching detail, Edith recalls a life of constant fear. She tells how German officials questioned the lineage of her parents; how during childbirth she refused all painkillers, afraid that in an altered state of mind she might reveal something of her past; and how, after her husband was captured by the Soviets, she was bombed out of her house and was forced to hide while Russian soldiers raped women in the street.
Despite the risks to her life, Edith created a remarkable record of survival. She saved every document and the photographs she took inside labor camps. Now part of the permanent collection at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., these hundreds of documents form the fabric of a new chapter in the history of the Holocaust—complex, troubling, and ultimately triumphant.
“A remarkable story.” —Jerusalem Post

The mother of Ryan White, the famed thirteen-year-old who contracted AIDS through a treatment for hemophilia, tells the uplifting story of her fight to support her son, to honor his memory, and to spread awareness of AIDS. Reprint.

Weeding Out the Tears: A Mother's Story of Love, Loss and Renewal

White, Jeanne

Parenting & Relationships

Avon/Books

The mother of Ryan White, a young hemophiliac who contracted the AIDS virus, describes her struggles with community ignorance and her son's strength and determination

Weeding Out the Tears: A Mother's Story of Love, Loss, and Renewal

Desperately Seeking Susan: The Novel

Random House Value Publishing

The gripping story of how Bent Skovmand and others preserved the world's wheat harvest. In 1999, a terrifying new form of stem rust―spotted in Uganda and dubbed "UG99"―quickly turned robust golden fields into dark, tangled ruins. For decades plant scientists had bred wheat varieties with rust-resistant genes, but these genes did not work against UG99. Unchecked, UG99 could spread all over the world, including the United States. 
Breeders everywhere began searching wheat germplasm collections for sources of resistance. The largest collection was at the Center for Improvement of Maize and Wheat (CIMMYT ) in Mexico, developed by the brilliant Danish scientist Bent Skovmand. For three decades, Skovmand amassed, multiplied, and documented thousands of wheat varieties. He served as an advisor on wheat genetic resources to dozens of countries, and hunted for seeds that would contain the genes to protect the harvest from plagues like UG99 and the stresses created by global warming. I n an era when corporations and governments often jealously guarded breeding information, Skovmand fought to keep his seed bank a center for free, open scientific exchange. By telling the story of Skovmand's work and that of his colleagues, The Viking in the Wheat Field sheds a welcome light on an agricultural sector―"plant genetic resources"―on which we are all crucially dependent.

The Viking in the Wheat Field: A Scientist's Struggle to Preserve the World's Harvest

Science & Math

Biological Sciences

Walker Books

For thirty years, Danish plant scientist Bent Skovmand served as adviser to dozens of countries and hunted for seeds with genes to resist disease and such environmental stresses as drought, flooding, and global warming. In an era when multinational corporations often jealously guarded patents on plant breeding, Skovmand fought to keep his seed bank a free, open scientific exchange for breeders and farmers everywhere. By telling the story of Skovmand and his colleagues, The Viking in the Wheat Field sheds welcome light on an agricultural sector--plant genetic resources--on which our food supply is crucially dependent.

Describes the experiences of the actor, Dustin Hoffman, and the director, Sydney Pollack, during the production of the motion picture, Tootsie

Making Tootsie: A Film Study With Dustin Hoffman and Sydney Pollack

Arts & Literature

Newmarket Pr

Double De Palma an Exclusive on the Set Profile of the Controversial Director

NEWMARKET PRESS

Discusses the making of the film Body Double, and offers a profile of its director, Brian DePalma

Double De Palma: A Film Study With Brian De Palma

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The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust

The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust

Weeding Out the Tears: A Mother's Story of Love, Loss and Renewal

Weeding Out the Tears: A Mother's Story of Love, Loss, and Renewal

Desperately Seeking Susan: The Novel

The Viking in the Wheat Field: A Scientist's Struggle to Preserve the World's Harvest

The Viking in the Wheat Field: A Scientist's Struggle to Preserve the World's Harvest

Making Tootsie: A Film Study With Dustin Hoffman and Sydney Pollack

Double De Palma an Exclusive on the Set Profile of the Controversial Director

Double De Palma: A Film Study With Brian De Palma