Although it was uncommon for a girl of that time to attend high school, Hahn's teacher persuaded Leopold to send his daughter.
There she met Werner Vetter, a Nazi party member who sought her hand in marriage even after she told him she was Jewish.
[1] Vetter, whose blindness in one eye had initially exempted him from military service, was ultimately drafted as a Nazi officer.
Hahn pleaded with the Soviet occupation authorities to free Vetter, and he was released in 1947, but their marriage ended shortly afterward.
Hahn thus decided to flee with her daughter to London, where her sisters had settled after seeking refuge in The British Mandate of Palestine at the onset of the war.