By Chance Alone
A Remarkable True Story of Courage and Survival at Auschwitz
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An award-winning, internationally best-selling Holocaust memoir by Max Eisen, in the tradition of Elie Wiesel’s Night and Primo Levi’s Survival in Auschwitz
In the spring of 1944 gendarmes forcibly removed Tibor “Max” Eisen and his family from their home, brought them to a brickyard, and eventually loaded them onto crowded cattle cars bound for Auschwitz-Birkenau. At 15 years of age, Eisen survived the selection process and he was inducted into the camp as a slave laborer.
More than 70 years after the Nazi camps were liberated by the Allies, By Chance Alone details Eisen’s story of survival: the backbreaking slave labor in Auschwitz I, the infamous death march in January 1945, the painful aftermath of liberation, and Eisen’s journey of physical and psychological healing. Ultimately, the book offers a message of hope as the author finds his way to a new life.
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Born in Leipzig, Germany, into a Jewish family, Eddie Jaku was a teenager when his world was turned upside-down. On November 9, 1938, during the terrifying violence of Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, Eddie was beaten by SS thugs, arrested, and sent to a concentration camp with thousands of other Jews across Germany. Every day of the next seven years of his life, Eddie faced unimaginable horrors in Buchenwald, Auschwitz, and finally on a forced death march during the Third Reich’s final days.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Everyone needs to listen to this amazing man
- De Christan Derryberry en 05-12-21
De: Eddie Jaku
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The Nine
- The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of Nazi Germany
- De: Gwen Strauss
- Narrado por: Juliet Stevenson
- Duración: 13 h y 33 m
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The Nine follows the true story of the author’s great aunt Hélène Podliasky, who led a band of nine female resistance fighters as they escaped a German forced labor camp and made a 10-day journey across the front lines of World War II from Germany back to Paris. Drawing on incredible research, this powerful, heart-stopping narrative is a moving tribute to the power of humanity and friendship in the darkest of times.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Soooo good!
- De anne simpson en 09-28-21
De: Gwen Strauss
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My Name Is Selma
- The Remarkable Memoir of a Jewish Resistance Fighter and Ravensbrück Survivor
- De: Selma van de Perre
- Narrado por: Rachel Bavidge
- Duración: 6 h y 6 m
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Selma van de Perre was 17 when World War II began. Until then, being Jewish in the Netherlands had not been an issue. But by 1941 it had become a matter of life or death. On several occasions, Selma barely avoided being rounded up by the Nazis. While her father was summoned to a work camp and eventually hospitalized in a Dutch transition camp, her mother and sister went into hiding - until they were betrayed in June 1943 and sent to Auschwitz.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Remarkable
- De slp 4 me en 05-11-21
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Nazis Knew My Name
- A Remarkable Story of Survival and Courage in Auschwitz
- De: Magda Hellinger, Maya Lee, David Brewster
- Narrado por: Kristin Atherton, Zoe Carides
- Duración: 8 h y 47 m
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In March 1942, 25-year-old kindergarten teacher Magda Hellinger and nearly a thousand other young women were deported as some of the first Jews to be sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp. The SS soon discovered that by putting prisoners in charge of the day-to-day accommodation blocks, they could deflect attention away from themselves. Magda was one such prisoner selected for leadership and put in charge of hundreds of women in the notorious Experimental Block 10. She found herself constantly walking a dangerously fine line: saving lives while avoiding suspicion by the SS.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Extraordinary courage.
- De Alice@Wonderland en 10-01-24
De: Magda Hellinger, y otros
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A Train Near Magdeburg
- A Teacher's Journey into the Holocaust
- De: Matthew Rozell
- Narrado por: Nick Cracknell
- Duración: 11 h y 5 m
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From the author of The Things Our Fathers Saw in the World War II eyewitness history series comes this book, offering the true story behind an iconic photograph taken at the liberation of a death train, deep in the heart of Nazi Germany. It's brought to life by the history teacher who discovered it and went on to reunite hundreds of Holocaust survivors with the actual American soldiers who saved them.
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4 out of 5 stars
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important story
- De Amazon Customer en 04-04-20
De: Matthew Rozell
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999
- The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz
- De: Heather Dune Macadam, Caroline Moorehead - foreword
- Narrado por: Suzanne Toren
- Duración: 13 h y 13 m
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On March 25, 1942, nearly a thousand young, unmarried Jewish women boarded a train in Poprad, Slovakia. Filled with a sense of adventure and national pride, they left their parents' homes wearing their best clothes and confidently waving good-bye. Believing they were going to work in a factory for a few months, they were eager to report for government service. Instead, the young women - many of them teenagers - were sent to Auschwitz. Their government paid 500 Reich Marks (about $200) apiece for Nazis to take them as slave labor. Of those 999 innocent deportees, only a few survived.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I don’t think you can ever fully understand
- De Shelley en 02-25-20
De: Heather Dune Macadam, y otros
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My Friend Anne Frank
- The Inspiring and Heartbreaking True Story of Best Friends Torn Apart and Reunited Against All Odds
- De: Hannah Pick-Goslar, Dina Kraft
- Narrado por: Alix Dunmore
- Duración: 9 h y 29 m
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In 1933, Hannah Pick-Goslar and her family fled Nazi Germany to live in Amsterdam, where she struck up a close friendship with her next-door neighbor, an outspoken and fun-loving young girl named Anne Frank. For several years, the inseparable pair enjoyed a carefree childhood of games, sleepovers, and treats with the other children in their neighborhood of Rivierenbuurt. But in 1942, Hannah and Anne's lives abruptly changed forever.
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5 out of 5 stars
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the missing piece to Anne’s story and the complete picture of Hannah’s
- De Wilson en 07-13-23
De: Hannah Pick-Goslar, y otros
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Four Perfect Pebbles
- A Holocaust Story
- De: Lila Perl, Marion Blumenthal Lazan
- Narrado por: Cheryl Stern, A. C. Fellner
- Duración: 2 h y 34 m
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Marion Blumenthal Lazan's unforgettable memoir recalls the devastating years that shaped her childhood. Following Hitler's rise to power, the Blumenthal family - father, mother, Marion, and her brother, Albert - were trapped in Nazi Germany. They managed eventually to get to Holland, but soon thereafter it was occupied by the Nazis. For the next six and a half years the Blumenthals were forced to live in refugee, transit, and prison camps that included Westerbork in Holland and the notorious Bergen-Belsen in Germany.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Wonderful/Terrible Story
- De EmilyA en 10-20-11
De: Lila Perl, y otros
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Into the Forest
- A Holocaust Story of Survival, Triumph, and Love
- De: Rebecca Frankel
- Narrado por: Natalie Pela
- Duración: 11 h y 13 m
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In the summer of 1942, the Rabinowitz family narrowly escaped the Nazi ghetto in their Polish town by fleeing to the forbidding Bialowieza Forest. They miraculously survived two years in the woods—through brutal winters, Typhus outbreaks, and merciless Nazi raids—until they were liberated by the Red Army in 1944. After the war, they trekked across the Alps into Italy, where they settled as refugees before eventually immigrating to the United States.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great story with an added benefit
- De Scottsville Stu en 12-30-21
De: Rebecca Frankel
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The Light of Days
- The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos
- De: Judy Batalion
- Narrado por: Mozhan Marno
- Duración: 14 h y 22 m
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One of the most important stories of World War II, already optioned by Steven Spielberg for a major motion picture: a spectacular, searing history that brings to light the extraordinary accomplishments of brave Jewish women who became resistance fighters - a group of unknown heroes whose exploits have never been chronicled in full, until now.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A profoundly moving book
- De Brian R Smith en 04-18-21
De: Judy Batalion
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Echoes from the Holocaust
- A Memoir
- De: Mira Ryczke Kimmelman
- Narrado por: Susan Marlowe
- Duración: 5 h y 50 m
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The daughter of a Jewish seed exporter, the author was born Mira Ryczke in 1923 in a suburb of the Baltic seaport of Danzig (now Gdansk, Poland). Her childhood was happy, and she learned to cherish her faith and heritage. Through the 1930s, Mira's family remained in the Danzig area despite a changing political climate that was compelling many friends and neighbors to leave. With the Polish capitulation to Germany in the autumn of 1939, however, Mira and her family were forced from their home.
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4 out of 5 stars
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4.5* - memoir of a survivor
- De Christine Newton en 06-09-17
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Invisible Jews
- Surviving the Holocaust in Poland
- De: Eddie Bielawski
- Narrado por: Norman Gilligan
- Duración: 2 h y 48 m
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Eddie Bielawski was born in the town of Wegrow in Poland in mid-1938. Not a propitious time and place for a Jewish child to be born. As a young child, he sees the Nazi army marching toward Russia. Day and night they marched - soldiers, trucks, tanks, and more soldiers, in a never-ending line - an invincible force. One night, his father had a dream. In this dream, he saw what he had to do: where to build the bunker, how to build it, and even its dimensions. This would be their Noah's Ark, saving them from the initial deluge.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Surviving not the camps, but being in hiding!
- De Logophile en 04-26-18
De: Eddie Bielawski
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My Family's Survival
- The True Story of How the Shwartz Family Escaped the Nazis and Survived the Holocaust
- De: Aviva Gat
- Narrado por: Callie Beaulieu, Neil Hellegers
- Duración: 9 h y 38 m
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In 1937, the Shwartz family lived a calm life in their small village in Poland. Fifteen-year-old Rachel liked to sing and go out dancing at a local night club, while her older brother David was busy running a farm and raising a family with his wife Hinda. But all that changed when the war reached Butla. First, the Russians came and kicked them out of their house. Then, the Nazis came to cart them off. But the Shwartz family resisted. David decided that no matter what, his family would not be taken captive. Instead, he snuck his family out of their village and into Hungary.
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5 out of 5 stars
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One of the best!
- De Ian en 08-11-20
De: Aviva Gat
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Last Stop Auschwitz
- My Story of Survival from Within the Camp
- De: Eddy de Wind
- Narrado por: Robert Fass
- Duración: 7 h y 38 m
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Written in the camp itself in the weeks following the Red Army's liberation of the camp, Last Stop Auschwitz is the raw, true account of Eddy's experiences at Auschwitz. In stunningly poetic prose, he provides unparalleled access to the horrors he faced in the concentration camp. This poignant memoir is at once a moving love story, a detailed portrayal of the atrocities of Auschwitz, and an intelligent consideration of the kind of behavior - both good and evil - people are capable of.
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5 out of 5 stars
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wow
- De Ann en 02-08-20
De: Eddy de Wind
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A Lucky Child
- A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy
- De: Thomas Buergenthal
- Narrado por: Thomas Buergenthal, Don Hagen
- Duración: 5 h y 56 m
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Thomas Buergenthal, now a Judge in the International Court of Justice in The Hague, tells his astonishing experiences as a young boy in his memoir, A Lucky Child. He arrived at Auschwitz at age 10 after surviving two ghettos and a labor camp. Separated first from his mother and then his father, Buergenthal managed by his wits and some remarkable strokes of luck to survive on his own. Almost two years after his liberation, Buergenthal was miraculously reunited with his mother and in 1951 arrived in the U.S. to start a new life.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Compelling Account
- De Simone en 04-23-15
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On the Run in Nazi Berlin
- A Memoir
- De: Bert Lewyn, Bev Saltzman Lewyn - contributor
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis, Suzanne Toren
- Duración: 12 h y 50 m
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Berlin, 1942. The Gestapo arrest 18-year-old Bert Lewyn and his parents, sending the latter to their deaths and Bert to work in a factory making guns for the Nazi war effort. Miraculously tipped off the morning the Gestapo round up all the Jews who work in the factories, Bert goes underground. He finds shelter sometimes with compassionate civilians, sometimes with people who find his skills useful and sometimes in the cellars of bombed-out buildings.
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5 out of 5 stars
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NOT YOUR USUAL STORY ABOUT THE NAZIS...FANTASTIC!
- De Steve en 03-21-19
De: Bert Lewyn, y otros
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Harry Haft: Survivor of Auschwitz, Challenger of Rocky Marciano
- Religion, Theology and the Holocaust
- De: Alan Scott Haft
- Narrado por: Price Waldman
- Duración: 5 h y 15 m
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Alan Scott Haft provides the first-hand testimony of his father, Harry Haft, a holocaust victim with a singular story of endurance, desperation, and unrequited love. Harry Haft was a 16-year-old Polish Jew when he entered a concentration camp in 1944. Forced to fight other Jews in bare-knuckle bouts for the perverse entertainment of SS officers, Harry quickly learned that his own survival depended on his ability to fight and win. Haft details the inhumanity of the "sport" in which he must perform in brutal contests for the officers.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Story
- De Amazon Customer en 12-23-24
De: Alan Scott Haft
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Maybe You Will Survive
- A Holocaust Memoir
- De: Aron Goldfarb, Graham Diamond
- Narrado por: Laurence Dobiesz
- Duración: 7 h y 11 m
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In Graham Diamond's collaboration with Aron Goldfarb, the reader feels the struggles of people trying to survive during the Holocaust. The author recounts his experiences in Poland during the Holocaust, when he escaped from a forced labour camp and, with his brother, hid in underground holes on the grounds of an estate controlled by the Gestapo.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Not accurate in all ways
- De Dinner en 05-11-20
De: Aron Goldfarb, y otros
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre By Chance Alone
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- Tawnya
- 02-02-22
A MUST READ
Max has lived a full life that could have so easily been overshadowed by hate and unhappiness; but his story is one of preserving and ultimately a life of love. Thank you for sharing your story.
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- Amazon Customer
- 03-25-22
triumph! Good over Evil
Every school child should be required to read this incredible journey of survival. My parents lived during this time in history…
I am saddened by the cruelty of humans to humans and also touched deeply by those who kept their compassion towards mankind. This
story will live with me forever .
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- Suszanne Guymer
- 07-17-19
A must read
Very well written , but the saddest of stories. May we never forget. One very courageous man.
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