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9 May 2003 (USA) morePlot:
Edith Han was an outspoken young woman studying law in Vienna when the Gestapo forced Edith and her mother into a Jewish ghetto... more | full synopsisAwards:
Nominated for Primetime Emmy. moreUser Comments:
A powerful view of the holocaust moreCast
(Credited cast) | Edith Hahn Beer | ... | Herself |
 | Julia Ormond | ... | Edith Hahn (voice) |
 | Susan Sarandon | ... | Narrator (voice) |
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We had seen many promos on A&E throughout the last week or so about this documentary. I have seen quite a few documentaries about World War 2 and the holocaust, but this particular one, to me, was quite personal.
I am very happy that I never had to live through this ordeal and I could not even imagine what would be going through someone's brain to try and even fathom what was going on and how to survive.
This particular lady, Edith Haan, had some luck plus some opportunities to survive the war. Tragically, most of her family didn't.
She hid openly inside Germany under an assumed name, thanks to help which some of her friends gave to her, and eventually she married a Nazi Officer and remained married to him until after the war. The marriage produced one daughter (the only Jewish baby to be born during the war and survive, thanks to her mother).
I have met survivors of the holocaust and one of the first things that they tell me is the powerful guilt they feel because they survived, where others didn't. They have one MAJOR problem of discussing their ordeals because of how powerful and all consuming this tragedy was.
So this documentary shows the life, on a personal level, of Edith Haan, when she finally was able to talk about her life after the Germans invaded Austria in 1938.
I don't think that we, as civilized human beings, have the right to judge any of her decisions or actions. We all survive in our own way.
Let us hope and pray that this tragedy will never befall man ever again!!! Where man can live together with man peacefully and as the Bible says "beat their swords into plowshares".