Author Visit: Edith Netter

In case of snow, the snow date will be Saturday, March 14th at 4pm.

Edith Netter is a retired lawyer, mystery fan, and world traveler. She uncovers and narrates in the voice of her grandmother stories about her family, Jewish-Germans who survived the Holocaust. She spent years actively researching the past, even retracing her grandmother’s journey to freedom. What she learned was harrowing, unique and new. Her family had not wanted to talk about the Holocaust.

Edith divides her time between tiny, beautiful Denmark, Maine and equally beautiful, but different Belmont, MA. She’s written and edited land use law publications, taught land use law in graduate programs and law schools, been a Loeb Fellow at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard, served on city and nonprofit boards. She co-produced a nationally-televised, award-winning documentary on women in prison.

 “The House at Schumannstrasse 7”, Maine Authors Publishing (July 2025) is a Holocaust survivors’ tale preceded by an arrest and an internment in England during WWI, told in the author’s grandmother’s voice. A beloved home seized by the Nazis, a German concentration camp, several British internment camps, the Kindertransport and a never-before-chronicled account of a fraught journey by “sealed train” from Berlin to Lisbon are key elements of this survivors’ tale. The story captures the family’s grit, courage and refusal to let go of hope.

For more information, including where to purchase a paperback or a kindle version of my book, see: edithnetterauthor.com.