The Nazi Officer's Wife
Directed by Liz Garbus
Narrated by Susan Sarandon and Julia Ormond
100 min

Based on her memoir of the same name, the film tells the story of Holocaust survivor Edith Hahn Beer ‘s remarkable journey through the reign of the Third Reich. After being forced into slave labor, Ms. Hahn Beer successfully concealed her Jewish identity and eventually married a Nazi officer who never betrayed her secret. At war’s end, “the Nazi Officer’s Wife” reclaimed her life as a lawyer and a judge, but at what price? The film explores issues of faith, family and identity in this complex portrait of a woman who had to bury her true self in order to survive. Director and Park Slope resident
Liz Garbus will host the event and Q&A session.

It is a bewitching and harrowing tale of the continual submersion of self to stay alive, told by a woman who survived the impostures in which she cloaked herself...like an old movie castle full of false fireplaces and trap doors.
- The New York Times