An amazing memoir. I found Beer's story to be both honest and raw. She made difficult choices during an unimaginable time in history and lived to tell the story.
As a Vienna Jew, she was forced into a ghetto and did time at a labor camp. Her friends were disappearing and her life had turned into a nightmare. Aided by a strong friend, she changed her identity to escape Nazi detection. Undercover, she met a Nazi Party member and married him. He helped to keep her identity hidden. She had a child with him and continued to live this secret life. When she was finally able, she resumed her real name and proudly told her story.
This is the type of book that sticks with you. The ethics are troubling. I have studied this period in history pretty extensively and it haunts me.
Edith Beer used many resources to survive the unimaginable and I loved the triumph of her spirit over the evils of the time.
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