From Holocaust to Harvard
A Story of Escape, Forgiveness, and Freedom
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A true and touching human tale of survival and achievement.
When John Stoessinger was ten years old, Adolf Hitler annexed his homeland of Austria, ripping the boy from his home and his friends in Vienna. His grandparents encouraged his mother and stepfather to take young John somewhere safe. "You must have a future," his grandfather told him before he and his parents boarded the train and waved goodbye.
As they trekked across the country, from Vienna to Prague and then finally settling in Shanghai, there was never a single moment Stoessinger was not afraid - he lived in constant fear that he and his family would be found and killed. However, even in Hitler-ruled Nazi Germany, there were plenty of people who refused to cower to absolute evil and who did everything they could to usher families like Stoessinger's to freedom.
In From Holocaust to Harvard, Stoessinger recalls heartbreaking moments from his childhood and of living a life of secrets in Shanghai. He then presents the second part of his story - his previous life and devastating memories and is able to relocate to America, earn a graduate-level degree from a prestigious university, and later become a member of the Council on Foreign Relations despite making a decision that nearly lands him in prison and threatens his hard-earned freedom.
Throughout his story, Stoessinger expresses his gratitude to those who helped him through the toughest parts of this life and put him on a path that led him to a Harvard education, a successful career, and inner peace.
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- De Magalie Busch en 05-06-19
De: Marthe Cohn, y otros
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Lara
- The Untold Love Story and the Inspiration for Doctor Zhivago
- De: Anna Pasternak
- Narrado por: Antonia Beamish
- Duración: 11 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 69
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 70
When Stalin came into power in 1924, the Communist government began persecuting dissident writers. Though Stalin spared the life of Boris Pasternak - whose novel in progress, Doctor Zhivago, was suspected of being anti-Soviet - he persecuted Boris' mistress, typist, and literary muse, Olga Ivinskaya. Boris' affair with Olga devastated the straitlaced Pasternaks, and they were keen to disavow Olga's role in Boris' writing process.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A wonderfully enjoyable read
- De gran 80 en 03-15-17
De: Anna Pasternak
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Marina and Lee
- The Tormented Love and Fatal Obsession Behind Lee Harvey Oswald's Assassination of John F. Kennedy
- De: Priscilla Johnson McMillan
- Narrado por: R.C. Bray, Joseph Finder
- Duración: 24 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 79
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 69
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 69
Marina and Lee is one of the best and truest audiobooks about the Kennedy assassination. Priscilla Johnson McMillan came to the story with a unique knowledge of the two main characters. In the 1950s she knew Kennedy well for a time when he was hospitalized with Addison's disease. She talked to him frequently, brought him books, knew his wife, and formed a strong opinion of the sort of man he was. What is astonishing is that she also knew Lee Harvey Oswald.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Now I know why he did it
- De Rodd en 06-09-14
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The Immigrants
- De: Howard Fast
- Narrado por: full cast
- Duración: 13 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 116
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 94
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 95
This is a love story of great beauty and great tenderness, the kind of love story that entangles the listener in the lives of the characters, so that after the story is over, one continues to live with those characters. And fortunately, the listener will not have to say farewell to these characters, since it is the first in a series that will tell the story of three Californian families over the course of the 20th century.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Narration style kills the story.
- De Glynis en 11-27-14
De: Howard Fast
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Dancing with the Enemy
- My Family's Holocaust Secret
- De: Paul Glaser
- Narrado por: James Anderson Foster, Christa Lewis
- Duración: 7 h y 47 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 40
The gripping story of the author's aunt, a Jewish dance instructor who was betrayed to the Nazis by the two men she loved, yet managed to survive WWII by teaching dance lessons to the SS at Auschwitz. Her epic life becomes a window into the author's own past and the key to discovering his Jewish roots.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing Unique
- De Nordic Artisan en 05-11-19
De: Paul Glaser
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Serpentine
- De: Thomas Thompson
- Narrado por: Mike Chamberlain
- Duración: 24 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 122
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 107
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 108
There was no pattern to the murders, no common thread other than the fact that the victims were all vacationers, robbed of their possessions, and slain in seemingly random crimes. Authorities across three continents and a dozen nations had no idea they were all looking for the same man: Charles Sobhraj, aka "The Serpent". A handsome Frenchman of Vietnamese and Indian origin, Sobhraj targeted backpackers on the "hippie trail" between Europe and South Asia. A master of deception, he used his powerful intellect and considerable sex appeal to lure naive travelers into a life of crime.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good Story / Weak Narration
- De Chandelle en 10-09-18
De: Thomas Thompson
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Accident of Birth
- De: Heather Neff
- Narrado por: Myra Lucretia Taylor
- Duración: 13 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 33
Reba Freeman has loved two men in her life. Her current husband, Carl, has supported her through their 20-year marriage and given her all the material wealth a suburban wife could hope for. Reba is comfortable, if not necessarily content, in her life with Carl and their blossoming teenage daughter, Marisa, until she learns that her first love and first husband, Joseph Thomas, has been detained by the World Court of Human Rights.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good Listen
- De Tricia en 02-24-08
De: Heather Neff
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God's Double Agent
- The True Story of a Chinese Christian's Fight for Freedom
- De: Bob Fu, Nancy French
- Narrado por: Hayden Lee
- Duración: 9 h y 57 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 830
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 747
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 750
God’s people are hiding in plain sightTens of millions of Christians live in China today, leading double lives to hide from a government that relentlessly persecutes them. By day, Bob Fu was a teacher in a communist school; by night, he was a preacher in an underground house church network. This edge-of-your-seat book tells the true story of Fu’s conversion to Christianity, his arrest and imprisonment for starting an illegal house church, his harrowing escape, and his subsequent rise to prominence in the United States as an advocate for his oppressed brethren.
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5 out of 5 stars
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a great book, very informative.
- De Charles en 09-21-15
De: Bob Fu, y otros
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Out of the Depths
- The Story of a Child of Buchenwald Who Returned Home at Last
- De: Rabbi Israel Meir Lau
- Narrado por: Steve Blane
- Duración: 15 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 119
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 101
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 101
Israel Meir Lau, one of the youngest survivors of Buchenwald, was just eight years old when the camp was liberated in 1945. Descended from a 1,000-year unbroken chain of rabbis, he grew up to become Chief Rabbi of Israel--and like many of the great rabbis, Lau is a master storyteller. Out of the Depths is his harrowing, miraculous, and inspiring account of life in one of the Nazis' deadliest concentration camps, and how he managed to survive against all possible odds.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing Book, Amazing Man
- De Shari en 01-14-13
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Life in a Jar
- De: Jack Mayer
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 14 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 431
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 381
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 376
During World War II, Irena Sendler, a Polish Catholic social worker, organized a rescue network of fellow social workers to save 2,500 Jewish children from certain death in the Warsaw ghetto. Incredibly, after the war her heroism, like that of many others, was suppressed by communist Poland and remained virtually unknown for 60 years.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love of neighbor
- De minime en 03-26-16
De: Jack Mayer
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Bloodline
- De: Sidney Sheldon
- Narrado por: Jenny Agutter
- Duración: 2 h y 44 m
- Versión resumida
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General4 out of 5 stars 84
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 63
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 61
Elizabeth Roffe, only child of one of the world's richest men, has it all; beauty, intelligence, innocence and youth. But when her father dies, she discovers that she has inherited not only his vast pharmaceutical company, with offices and factories all over the world, but also an unspeakable terror that threatens to destroy the business. As she struggles to save the company that took her family four generations to build, she realizes that she herself is the target of an unknown assassin.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Awful, I want my credit back.
- De Jojo en 12-23-19
De: Sidney Sheldon
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Destined to Witness
- Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany
- De: Hans Massaquoi
- Narrado por: Peter Jay Fernandez
- Duración: 19 h y 58 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 152
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 135
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 136
What would life be like for a Black boy growing up in Nazi Germany? This unprecedented autobiography answers that question with the spellbinding true story of Hans J. Massaquoi’s life in Hamburg during the height of Hitler’s regime. Hans is the son of a Black Liberian diplomat father and a white German mother. His father returns to Africa at the beginning of the war, leaving them behind in poverty without the means to flee. Within this tense atmosphere, increasingly violent Nazi policies and Allied bombing raids make Hans and his mother’s lives a day-to-day survival struggle.
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3 out of 5 stars
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An important story, marred by lackluster writing.
- De Christopher en 03-04-15
De: Hans Massaquoi
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Bend, Not Break
- A Life in Two Worlds
- De: Ping Fu, MeiMei Fox
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 10 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 116
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 99
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 99
Ping Fu knows what it’s like to be a child soldier, a factory worker, and a political prisoner. To be beaten and raped for the crime of being born into a well-educated family. To be deported with barely enough money for a plane ticket to a bewildering new land. To start all over, without family or friends, as a maid, waitress, and student. Ping Fu also knows what it’s like to be a pioneering software programmer, an innovator, a CEO, and Inc. magazine’s Entrepreneur of the Year.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A true account as good as any Horatio Alger story!
- De Roy B. Paschal en 01-14-13
De: Ping Fu, y otros
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The Return
- Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between
- De: Hisham Matar
- Narrado por: Hisham Matar
- Duración: 8 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,021
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 910
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 911
When Hisham Matar was a 19-year-old university student in England, his father was kidnapped. One of the Qaddafi regime's most prominent opponents in exile, he was held in a secret prison in Libya. Hisham would never see him again. But he never gave up hope that his father might still be alive. "Hope," as he writes, "is cunning and persistent." Twenty-two years later, after the fall of Qaddafi, the prison cells were empty, and there was no sign of Jaballa Matar. Hisham returned with his mother and wife to the homeland he never thought he'd go back to again.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Touching memoir. Consider hard copy
- De Joschka Philipps en 02-22-18
De: Hisham Matar
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Daring
- My Passages - A Memoir
- De: Gail Sheehy
- Narrado por: Bernadette Dunne
- Duración: 14 h y 58 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 36
Candid, insightful, and powerful, Daring: My Passages is the story of the unconventional life of a writer who dared - to walk New York City streets with hookers and pimps to expose violent prostitution; to march with civil rights protesters in Northern Ireland as British paratroopers opened fire; to seek out Egypt's president Anwar Sadat when he was targeted for death after making peace with Israel.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Enjoyed unexpectedly
- De Corinne O'Rourke en 09-06-23
De: Gail Sheehy
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Enemies of the People
- My Family's Journey to America
- De: Kati Marton
- Narrado por: Laural Merlington
- Duración: 9 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 103
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 52
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 52
In this true-life thriller, Kati Marton draws on her skill as an investigative reporter to discover who her journalist parents really were---and how they survived the Nazis in Budapest and imprisonment by the Soviets during the Cold War.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Couldn't stop listening
- De Jane en 04-09-10
De: Kati Marton
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Philomena
- A Mother, Her Son, and a Fifty-Year Search
- De: Martin Sixsmith
- Narrado por: John Curless
- Duración: 15 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 921
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 836
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 832
Now a major motion picture directed by Stephen Frears ( The Queen, High Fidelity) and starring Judi Dench ( Skyfall, Notes on a Scandal) and Steve Coogan ( The Trip, Hamlet 2): the heartbreaking true story of an Irishwoman and the secret she kept for 50 years. When she became pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952, Philomena Lee was sent to a convent to be looked after as a "fallen woman". Then the nuns took her baby from her and sold him, like thousands of others, to America for adoption. Fifty years later, Philomena decided to find him.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Very Moving Story
- De Cariola en 02-09-14
De: Martin Sixsmith
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A Time to Betray
- The Astonishing Double Life of a CIA Agent inside the Revolutionary Guards of Iran
- De: Reza Kahlili
- Narrado por: Richard Allen
- Duración: 13 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 471
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 377
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 377
A true story as exhilarating as a great spy thriller, as turbulent as today's headlines from the Middle East, A Time to Betray reveals what no other previous CIA operative's memoir possibly could: the inner workings of the notorious Revolutionary Guards of Iran, as witnessed by an Iranian man inside their ranks who spied for the American government.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Great book, Farsi speakers will hate narrator
- De Johnny en 10-27-13
De: Reza Kahlili
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An inspiring account from one of history’s darkest moments. Marione Ingram grew up in Hamburg, Germany, in the late 1930s and early 1940s. She was German. She was Jewish. She was a survivor. This is her story. As a young girl, Marione was aware that people of the Jewish faith were regarded as outsiders, the supposed root of Germany’s many problems. She grew up in an apartment building where neighbors were more than happy to report Jews to the Gestapo.
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The Auschwitz Photographer
- The Forgotten Story of the WWII Prisoner Who Documented Thousands of Lost Souls
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Poland, 1939. Professional photographer Wilhelm Brasse is deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau and finds himself in a deadly race to survive, assigned to work as the camp's intake photographer and take "identity pictures" of prisoners as they arrive by the trainload. The Auschwitz Photographer takes listeners behind the barbed wire fences of the world's most feared concentration camp, bringing Brasse's story to life as he clicks the shutter button thousands of times before ultimately joining the Resistance, defying the Nazis, and defiantly setting down his camera for good.
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4 out of 5 stars
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More of an account than a story
- De Ronald washabaugh en 10-03-24
De: Luca Crippa, y otros
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What Papa Told Me
- De: Felice Cohen
- Narrado por: Virtual Voice
- Duración: 2 h y 19 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 8
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 7
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 7
From this book, What Papa Told Me, you will learn about the story of Murray, a young Jewish boy from Poland whose courage and sheer will to live helped him survive eight different labor and concentration camps in the Holocaust, start a new life in America, and keep a family intact in the aftermath of his wife's suicide - one of the Nazis' last victims.
De: Felice Cohen
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My Mother's Secret
- Based on a True Holocaust Story
- De: J. L. Witterick
- Narrado por: Elizabeth Wiley
- Duración: 2 h y 57 m
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 434
Franciszka and her daughter, Helena, are simple, ordinary people until 1939, when the Nazis invade their homeland. Providing shelter to Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland is a death sentence, but Franciszka and Helena do exactly that. In their tiny home in Sokal, they hide a Jewish family in a loft above their pigsty, a Jewish doctor with his wife and son in a makeshift cellar under the kitchen, and a defecting German soldier in the attic - each party completely unknown to the others.
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5 out of 5 stars
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WONDERFUL!!!
- De Robyn Collins en 02-29-16
De: J. L. Witterick
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Fraulein
- Struggle for Identity
- De: Jeffrey T Leonards
- Narrado por: Virtual Voice
- Duración: 14 h y 23 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 4
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 4
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 4
BRILLIANT, YOUNG AND AMBITIOUS, Annika Tritzchler defies the norms of 1930s Berlin by pursuing medical training in a venue traditionally dominated by men. Facing contempt from her counterparts is minor compared to the massive upheaval in a city transitioning to dictatorship while brutally persecuting its enemies. Annika's career takes a decisive turn when, early in her psychiatric residency, she is expected to participate in applied eugenics- the roguish trend within Nazi medicine. Sterilizing patients deemed racially inferior and euthanizing the handicapped (including patients that she, ...
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The Daring Girls of Guernsey
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- De: Gayle Callen
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- Duración: 10 h y 31 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 139
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 126
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 126
In 1940, Germany seizes control of Guernsey without a fight—but not without resistance. Innocent young teacher Catherine is forced to house a German officer. Shrewd waitress Betty seeks to elude the persistent Nazi determined to conquer her. And courageous nurse Helen cares for her patients—both British and German—while hiding a British spy in her seaside cottage. Their fight against the injustices being enacted on their island home brings the women, the spy, and their enemies together in one night that will change all of their lives forever.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good story
- De Susie en 02-20-24
De: Gayle Callen
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The Hands of War
- A Tale of Endurance and Hope, From a Survivor of the Holocaust
- De: Marione Ingram
- Narrado por: Teresa DeBerry
- Duración: 6 h y 8 m
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An inspiring account from one of history’s darkest moments. Marione Ingram grew up in Hamburg, Germany, in the late 1930s and early 1940s. She was German. She was Jewish. She was a survivor. This is her story. As a young girl, Marione was aware that people of the Jewish faith were regarded as outsiders, the supposed root of Germany’s many problems. She grew up in an apartment building where neighbors were more than happy to report Jews to the Gestapo.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Powerful story from an incredible woman
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 31
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Poland, 1939. Professional photographer Wilhelm Brasse is deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau and finds himself in a deadly race to survive, assigned to work as the camp's intake photographer and take "identity pictures" of prisoners as they arrive by the trainload. The Auschwitz Photographer takes listeners behind the barbed wire fences of the world's most feared concentration camp, bringing Brasse's story to life as he clicks the shutter button thousands of times before ultimately joining the Resistance, defying the Nazis, and defiantly setting down his camera for good.
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4 out of 5 stars
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More of an account than a story
- De Ronald washabaugh en 10-03-24
De: Luca Crippa, y otros
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What Papa Told Me
- De: Felice Cohen
- Narrado por: Virtual Voice
- Duración: 2 h y 19 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 8
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 7
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 7
From this book, What Papa Told Me, you will learn about the story of Murray, a young Jewish boy from Poland whose courage and sheer will to live helped him survive eight different labor and concentration camps in the Holocaust, start a new life in America, and keep a family intact in the aftermath of his wife's suicide - one of the Nazis' last victims.
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- De: J. L. Witterick
- Narrado por: Elizabeth Wiley
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 493
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 435
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Franciszka and her daughter, Helena, are simple, ordinary people until 1939, when the Nazis invade their homeland. Providing shelter to Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland is a death sentence, but Franciszka and Helena do exactly that. In their tiny home in Sokal, they hide a Jewish family in a loft above their pigsty, a Jewish doctor with his wife and son in a makeshift cellar under the kitchen, and a defecting German soldier in the attic - each party completely unknown to the others.
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WONDERFUL!!!
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good story
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De: Gayle Callen
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Born Survivors
- Three Young Mothers and Their Extraordinary Story of Courage, Defiance, and Hope
- De: Wendy Holden
- Narrado por: Elizabeth Wiley
- Duración: 13 h y 8 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,301
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,143
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Eastern Europe, 1944: Three women believe they are pregnant, but are torn from their husbands before they can be certain. Rachel is sent to Auschwitz, unaware that her husband has been shot. Priska and her husband travel there together, but are immediately separated. Also at Auschwitz, Anka hopes in vain to be reunited with her husband. With the rest of their families gassed, these young wives are determined to hold on to all they have left-their lives, and those of their unborn babies.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Just an incredible story!
- De PCF en 06-03-17
De: Wendy Holden
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One Last Hope
- A Voyage to Escape Nazi Germany
- De: Roberta Kagan
- Narrado por: Virtual Voice
- Duración: 12 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 15
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 14
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 14
On May 13th 1939, five strangers boarded the MS St. Louis, Promised a future of safety away from Nazi Germany and Hitler’s third Reich unbeknownst to them they were about to embark upon a voyage built on secrets, lies, and treachery. Sacrifice, love, life, and death hung in the balance as each fought against fate but the voyage was just the beginning.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Poor pronunciation, Interesting story
- De Pat H. en 02-15-25
De: Roberta Kagan
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The Lost Spy
- Slim Moran Mysteries Series, Book 1
- De: Kate Moira Ryan
- Narrado por: Christa Lewis
- Duración: 8 h y 43 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 76
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 74
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 74
Set in 1949 Paris, Slim Moran runs the Pitchipoi Agency with her Nazi Hunter boyfriend, Daniel. Their specialty: to find those lost in the last war. After a couple of easy cases, business has ground to halt, and Daniel has just gone on another manhunt this time to find the Nazi Butcher of Lyon, Klaus Barbie. Slim is bored until a British spymistress asks her to find a missing woman spy long presumed dead.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The little bit of truth within the fiction
- De Linda Baez en 03-14-24
De: Kate Moira Ryan
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All the Horrors of War
- A Jewish Girl, a British Doctor, and the Liberation of Bergen-Belsen
- De: Bernice Lerner
- Narrado por: Kirsten Potter
- Duración: 6 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 30
On April 15, 1945, Brigadier H. L. Glyn Hughes entered Bergen-Belsen for the first time. Waiting for him were 10,000 unburied, putrefying corpses and 60,000 living prisoners, starving and sick. One month earlier, 15-year-old Rachel Genuth arrived at Bergen-Belsen; deported with her family from Sighet, Transylvania, in May of 1944, Rachel had by then already endured Auschwitz, the Christianstadt labor camp, and a forced march through the Sudetenland.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Definitely must listen to
- De Misti en 08-10-23
De: Bernice Lerner
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My Mother's War
- A Holocaust Survivor's Tribute to an Extraordinary Woman
- De: Michael Fryd
- Narrado por: Virtual Voice
- Duración: 5 h y 44 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 14
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Narración:3 out of 5 stars 13
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 13
My Mother's War is a gripping memoir about one woman's unflinching courage and cunning in the face of horrific evil. This compelling true story follows author and Holocaust survivor Michael Fryd's larger-than-life mother who outsmarted the Nazis and saved her family. Michael Fryd was only three years old when Nazi Germany invaded Poland, triggering World War II and one of humanity’s darkest chapters. Forced to leave their home and everything they knew, Fryd's mother went to near impossible lengths to keep her family safe from Hitler’s clutches, including crafting clever lies, dealing in...
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good story but distracting virtual voice
- De Linda en 01-01-25
De: Michael Fryd
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Parallel Lives
- The Remarkable Story of a Young Jewish Family Separated by World War II
- De: Lena Rotmensz
- Narrado por: Virtual Voice
- Duración: 13 h
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General4 out of 5 stars 12
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 11
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 11
Based on a true story. Liliana is a beautiful and educated young Jewish woman. She marries Henry and becomes a mother to Rebecca. She has a full life ahead of her in Poland, or so it seems. The time period is the beginning of World War II, when the Germans invade Poland. To protect her, Liliana and Henry entrust Rebecca to their Christian friends. Shortly thereafter, Henry is among those taken to the concentration camp. Time passes, and Liliana knows little about the fate of her husband or daughter. To survive, Liliana (now known as Helena) assumes the identity of a Polish aristocrat and ...
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5 out of 5 stars
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Survival of the persecuted
- De Kaye Kirby en 03-14-25
De: Lena Rotmensz
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I Am a Star
- Child of the Holocaust
- De: Inge Auerbacher
- Narrado por: Suzanne Toren
- Duración: 1 h y 37 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 24
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 17
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 17
Inge Auerbacher is a happy German girl when the nightmare begins. Six-year-old Inge is made to wear a yellow star to identify her as a Jew. As the Nazis gain power, her family is subjected to greater and greater horrors. Their home and citizenship are taken away. Inge’s relatives are sent away, and she and her parents are forced into the Terezin concentration camp in Czechoslovakia.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A short story
- De Starlet en 02-03-11
De: Inge Auerbacher
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Still Alive
- A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered
- De: Ruth Kluger, Lore Segal - foreword
- Narrado por: Natasha Soudek
- Duración: 10 h y 41 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 28
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 29
Swept up as a child in the events of Nazi-era Europe, Ruth Kluger saw her family's comfortable Vienna existence systematically undermined and destroyed. By age 11, she had been deported, along with her mother, to Theresienstadt, the first in a series of concentration camps that would become the setting for her precarious childhood. Interwoven with blunt, unsparing observations of childhood and nuanced reflections of an adult who has spent a lifetime thinking about the Holocaust, Still Alive rejects all easy assumptions about history, both political and personal.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Extraordinary story. Sublime narration
- De Annie Armstrong en 11-16-21
De: Ruth Kluger, y otros
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Black Roses
- De: Jane Thynne
- Narrado por: Julie Teal
- Duración: 15 h y 45 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 22
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 19
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 19
Berlin, 1933. Aspiring actress Clara Vine arrives in Berlin to find work at the famous Ufa studios. Through a chance meeting, she is unwillingly drawn into a circle of Nazi wives, led by Magda Goebbels. British Intelligence officer Leo Quinn sees Clara as the perfect recruit to spy on her new elite friends. But then Magda reveals to Clara a dramatic secret and entrusts her with an extraordinary mission.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Berlin 1933
- De Stevon en 04-15-21
De: Jane Thynne
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Miracle Across the Sound
- A WWII Historical Novel of Bravery, Love, & True Freedom
- De: Christine Egbert
- Narrado por: Virtual Voice
- Duración: 6 h y 13 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 9
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Narración:3 out of 5 stars 9
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 9
SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE Inspired by the history of the Danes and their Jewish neighbors who worked together to defy the Reich, Miracle Across the Sound is a story of bravery, love, and true freedom. It is September 1943, and Jews are still free in German-occupied Denmark. But that is about to change. Jewish college student Fleming Lund and his Lutheran former fiancée, Liesel Prestur, have not spoken since they ended their engagement. When Leisel witnesses the Gestapo hauling her Jewish neighbors from their home in the middle of the night, she sneaks off to warn the Lunds. ...
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1 out of 5 stars
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I cannot stand the lack of empathy in the reading when it is not read my a human. I couldn’t stand listening to it any longer
- De Carol Kraft en 10-16-24
De: Christine Egbert
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My Son's Secret
- Jews, the Third Reich, and a Web of Secrets, Book 1
- De: Roberta Kagan
- Narrado por: Alice Jones
- Duración: 8 h y 48 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 28
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 26
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 26
There were so many terrifying stories about the Jews. People called them useless vermin, filthy, dangerous. Before I met Abram, I was afraid of them, too. But I am about to tell you a very different story—a forbidden story. My love for Abram defied all reason...as well as German law. Tonight our son giggles with excitement as he blows out the candles on his birthday cake. But our safety is nothing but an illusion. As his candles burn out, a window shatters outside. The room shudders as the synagogue down the street is engulfed in flames.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Book finished mid story
- De Tal en 03-12-25
De: Roberta Kagan
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When's Mummy Coming?
- Hearts at War, Book 1
- De: Rachel Wesson
- Narrado por: Harrie Dobby
- Duración: 9 h y 8 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 52
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 46
Germany 1939 – To save her baby, Trudi Beck must hand her over to strangers who will take her across the sea to a foreign country. Trudi has already lost her husband to the Nazis, her stepsons are taking the train too. Walking away from the train station with empty arms is the hardest thing she's ever done. London 1939 – Newly married, Sally Matthews, is alone again. Her husband is away training for war, leaving her days and home empty. She volunteers to help with the children from the Kindertransport, becoming captivated by five-year-old Tom and his baby sister, Liesel.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Poor performance and sound quality.
- De Gypsycrone en 03-04-25
De: Rachel Wesson
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Just OK
it was interesting about John's journey to Shanghai and how it happened. It seemed like the story's focus was on a man who couldn't keep his pants on. It doesn't matter if the women loved him, morally, it was wrong. How did he expect countries get along in relationships when he couldn't in his own personal relationships. The most infuriating statement he made was getting his job in San Diego and he professed to be Jewish.
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