Edith Hahn Beer

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Edith Hahn Beer (January 24, 1914 – March 17, 2009) was an Austrian Jewish woman who survived the Holocaust by hiding her Jewish identity and marrying a Nazi officer. Hahn was one of three daughters born to Klothilde and Leopold Hahn. Her parents owned and ran a restaurant. In June 1936 Leopold died while working as a restaurant manager at a hotel in the Alps. Although it was uncommon for a girl of that time to attend high school, Hahn's teacher persuaded Leopold to send his daughter. After graduating, Hahn continued her studies at university and was studying law at the time of the Anschluss, when she was forced to leave the university because she was Jewish. In 1939, Hahn and her mother were sent to the Jewish ghetto in Vienna. They were separated in April 1941, when Hahn was sent to an asparagus plantation in Osterburg, Germany and then to the Bestehorn paper factory in Aschersleben. Her mother had been deported to Nazi Germany-occupied Poland two weeks before Hahn was able to return to Vienna, in 1942. With duplicate copies of the identity papers of a Christian friend, Christa Denner, Hahn went to Munich.