Background
Although it was uncommon for a girl of that time to attend high school, her professor persuaded her father to give in and he sent her to high school.
Although it was uncommon for a girl of that time to attend high school, her professor persuaded her father to give in and he sent her to high school.
Early life and education
Hahn was one of three daughters born to Klothilde and Leopold Hahn. She 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. World World War II
In 1939, Hahn and her mother were sent to the 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 box factory in Aschersleben.
Her mother had been deported to Poland two weeks before Hahn was able to return to Vienna in 1942. In Munich, she met Werner Vetter, a Nazi party member who sought her hand in marriage, and volunteered as a German Red Cross nurse
Vetter became a prisoner-of-war and was sent to a Siberian labour camp in March 1945. Later life
Following the war, she used her long-hidden Jewish identity card to reclaim her true identity.
The Allies" need for jurists called her law education into use and she was appointed as a judge in Brandenburg.
Vetter died in 2002. Hahn worked as a housemaid and a corset designer. After his death, she moved to Netanya, Israel.
In December 1997, a collection of Hahn"s personal papers was sold at auction for $169,250.
The collection, known as the Edith Hahn Archive, was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. She died in 2009.