Who is Pepi Rosenfeld?

Josef “Pepi” Rosenfeld was Edith’s first love. They were young and in love in Vienna but their relationship was interrupted by the Nazi invasion. Pepi was a Jew but his mother secured documentation that he was a Christian to save him from incarceration. Edith fled Vienna to save her life. She begged Pepi to marry her so that she could be safe but he refused.