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Auschwitz
- A Doctor's Eyewitness Account
- Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
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Narrator Noah Michael Levine's expressive performance shades in different layers of emotion as he narrates the true story of Jewish prisoner Dr. Miklos Nyiszli, who was spared death and chosen by Dr. Josef Mengele himself to assist in the Nazi doctor's terrible experiments. Levine sensitively evokes both the horror and desire for survival that permeates Dr. Nyiszli's stories of serving as Mengele's personal research pathologist and as the physician to the Sonderkommando, the Jewish prisoners who worked in the crematoriums and were routinely executed every four months. Listeners will find themselves moved by Dr. Nyiszli's moral agony over his role as Mengele's assistant and his ambition to stay alive in order to reveal the truth about Auschwitz.
Summary
Auschwitz was one of the first books to bring the full horror of the Nazi death camps to the American public; this is, as the New York Review of Books said, "the best brief account of the Auschwitz experience available."
When the Nazis invaded Hungary in 1944, they sent virtually the entire Jewish population to Auschwitz. A Jew and a medical doctor, the prisoner Dr. Miklos Nyiszli was spared death for a grimmer fate: to perform "scientific research" on his fellow inmates under the supervision of the man who became known as the infamous "Angel of Death" - Dr. Josef Mengele. Nyiszli was named Mengele's personal research pathologist. In that capacity he also served as physician to the Sonderkommando, the Jewish prisoners who worked exclusively in the crematoriums and were routinely executed after four months. Miraculously, Nyiszli survived to give this horrifying and sobering account.
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- Amazon Customer
- 26-08-22
harrowing but unmissable
exceptionally written gripping account. made me wince at times to listen to the reality of the camps but hard to put down once started.
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- Adrian Chan-Wyles Ph.D
- 04-11-20
An Important Historical Document of the Holocaust
This biography should be preserved and kept for all time as a testimony to the destructive horror of fascism and its supportive far-right political policies. This biography of a Romanian Jewish Doctor should be taught in all schools and used to counter Holocaust deniers and their right-wing allies! This book is shocking and it is good that it is. We must never forget the horror of Nazi Germany or what went on in Auschwitz.
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- Amazon Customer
- 04-05-16
Everyone should read
Brings home scale and horror of what went on, before being too critical of Israel listen to this to understand context.
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- Street
- 01-03-18
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This book told the horrific story in a completely unique way, it's not within my usual choice of genre but I'm glad I took the chance to listen. Compelling but sad story.
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- Máire
- 24-04-19
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This tragic story was wonderfully narrated; however the German language words and phrases were incorrectly pronounced.
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- Janet Jones
- 11-07-23
interesting....
informative, heart-wrenching, and compelling to listen to. Highly recommend this book. The narrator was very good.
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- Anonymous User
- 09-04-24
The bravery of the author
It is vital to read books such as these to know the terrible history if Hitlers extermination of the Jews and other races he deemed inferior . Me I shall never understand the depravity and cruelty that took place in these camps . How did so many ss officer manger to escape including the terrible Mengele.However reading this book today 2024 I am baffled , the Jews went through such hardship and barbaric cruelty , so why oh why are they doing what they are doing in Palestine . Why are they treating the Palestinians so badly when we all agree such atrocities should never happen again . I pray for peace that can only reach the heart and I pray that the behaviour that takes place in this book is never repeated , by anyone .
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- roz
- 04-03-15
Really good,
Met all expectations, a very good true story, you could understand everything thing that was said, but I must say it was very sad
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- Amazonmark
- 12-12-22
Powerful, Educational, we should NEVER forget
A time, a place and events we should never forget. A time of pure evil. Mankind at their worst. A death 'machine' at work. Cruelty beyond belief. heartbreaking.
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- S Barratt
- 25-09-22
Frighteningly descriptive
A must read, this account should be taught in schools as an example of how easily we can mistreat one another.
An excellent book, graphic but rightly so, it serves as a message and wouldn’t work if it were to be softened down at all.
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