The Evil That Surrounds Us: The WWII Memoir of Erna Becker-KohenIn 1931, Gustav Becker and Erna Kohen married. He was Catholic and she was Jewish. Erna and Gustav had no idea their religious affiliations, which mattered so little to them, would define their marriage under the Nazis. As one of the more than 20,000 German Jews married to an Aryan spouse, Erna was initially exempt from the most radical anti Jewish measures. However, even after Erna willingly converted to Catholicism, the persecution, isolation, and