I have heard the 1999 film portrays this amazing story with the emotion it deserves, so I'd steer potential non-academic readers in that direction first. … ( more)Ī truly amazing love story between a Jewish woman and a Nazi woman in 1943, whose documentary-style format and poor translation quality were disappointing. The book, translated into twenty languages, and the film based on it-directed by Max Färberböck, with Juliane Köhler and Maria Schrader in the leading roles-have made Aimée and Jaguar's story known around the world. After the book appeared in 1994 she was contacted by additional contemporaries of Aimée and Jaguar who offered new material that has been integrated into the present edition. At the age of eighty, Lilly Wust told her story to Erica Fischer, who turned it into a poignant testimony. On August 21, 1944, Jaguar was arrested and deported. When Jaguar admitted to her lover that she was Jewish, this dangerous secret drew the two women even closer to each other. They composed poems and love letters to each other, and wrote their own marriage contract. Aimée (Lilly) and Jaguar (Felice) started forging plans for the future. But then she met the twenty-one-year-old Felice Schragenheim. Lilly Wust, twenty-nine, married, four children, led a life as did millions of German women.
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