Englewood Cliffs, NJ – JCCAUDIOBOOKS, an imprint of Jewish Contemporary Classics, Inc. and the leading publisher of great Jewish books on audiotape, is proud to announce that their audiobook version of THE NAZI OFFICER’S WIFE, the international bestseller by Edith Hahn Beer and Susan Dworkin, has won both of the 2004 AUDIE Awards for which it was nominated – Best Memoir and Best Solo Narration – Female – at an awards ceremony held earlier this month.

THE NAZI OFFICER’S WIFE beat out several other outstanding titles that had been favored to win, including Benjamin Franklin by Walter Isaacson, A Long Way from Home by Tom Brokaw and My Invented Country by Isabel Allende.

The AUDIE Awards are the “Oscars” of the audiobook publishing industry, the highest honor that can be given to a book on tape or CD. The winners were announced at a gala awards ceremony in Chicago on earlier this month.

“We are thrilled to have been awarded not one, but two, prestigious AUDIE Awards,” said Ben Dworkin, vice president of JCCAUDIOBOOKS. “The AUDIE Awards represent excellence in the field and we think it’s just wonderful that the industry recognized that a small, independent audiobook publisher like JCCAUDIOBOOKS can still produce outstanding work.”

Originally published in print to both critical and popular acclaim, THE NAZI OFFICER’S WIFE is Ms. Beer’s true, first-person account of her amazing escape from the Holocaust. The story was the subject of a popular A&E documentary earlier this year, and will soon be released as a major motion picture.

With sparkling intelligence and unforgettable honesty, THE NAZI OFFICER’S WIFE tells the tale of how Edith Hahn, a well-educated Viennese Jew living in Nazi-occupied Austria while pretending to be an Aryan Christian, attracted the attention of a Nazi Party member who fell in love with her and – even after she told him her true identity – married her and hid her throughout the war.

Susan Dworkin, who aided Edith Hahn Beer in preparing her memoir, is a Peabody Award-winning author, journalist, and lecturer. Dworkin had the unusual honor of also being the producer and director of the audiobook version of the book. “It was a great experience to bring Edith’s story to life first in print and then on audio,” said Dworkin. “Few authors ever get that chance.” Susan Dworkin is also president of JCCAUDIOBOOKS.

Narrator Barbara Rosenblat has been called one of “The Golden Voices” of audio publishing by AudioFile Magazine, the industry’s leading trade journal. In THE NAZI OFFICER’S WIFE, she brings to life the remarkable characters, the split-second decisions, the fear, and the triumph of Ms. Beer’s experience. Rosenblat’s recent win makes her a three-time Audie Award winner in the category of Best Solo Narration – Female.

Last year, she won this prize for her narration of Kate Simon’s classic, BRONX PRIMITIVE, also published by JCCAUDIOBOOKS.