The Mistress of Auschwitz

Mistress of Auschwitz Series, Book 1

De: Terrance D. Williamson

Narrado por: Kirsten Potter

Based on the harrowing life of Eleonore Hodys, The Mistress of Auschwitz follows the true story of a political prisoner detained in the notorious concentration camp. While experiencing all the horrors of the holocaust, Eleonore turns to friendship for survival. Through companionship with another female prisoner, Eleonore must decide if she has the courage to join the resistance movement which is planning the overthrow of their wicked oppressors. Matters are only complicated when Eleonore unwittingly attracts the attention of the Commandant and she is forced to decide between her own comfort or her principles.

©2019 Terrance D. Williamson (P)2021 Tantor

Wow

Captures your attention all the way through. Getting ready to listen to the next book.

A great and telling story

I loved this book. The plot was very interesting and informative. It provided details that I could easily visualize. Such a sad but true story.

Great story & performance

The narrator kept me hooked, she did a fairly good performance. The story was well written and to the point and i liked how it leaves an open ending for the writer to eventually introduce us to a sequel.

It tells the true story of Elenor Hodys, a political prisoner detained in the notorious concentration camp.

One thing that surprised me was that she was able to push her luck within her prison boundaries, "talk back" and even dared to make special requests from the guards - which I thought was completely out of place until I remembered she was NOT Jewish and probably would have received some semblance of patience from the guards.

But anyway, bare in mind that this is not a usual holocaust story. We’re used to only hear about the horrific brutalities performed to the jews and not the small, lesser known intrigues that went on. This is one of those "small" stories. And that is not meant in any way to diminish the tragedies within the story.

A RARELY TOLD STORY

All concentration camp fiction/non-fiction concentrates on the Jews who of course were not the only people to be interned in Auschwitz and other camps. Since they were not immediately destined for extermination, political prisoners have a rather different story to tell. For anyone who has actually been to Auschwitz (in the days before it became a theme park and the ideal place to take a selfie and post on social media i.e; more than 20 years ago) the descriptions of Block 11 are indeed as harrowing as the book cover blurb promises. Not an easy read, but a very interesting one.

Great Read

I loved this book. Harsh details of life in the camp during the Holocaust.

Person speaking very good. Enjoyed the book emensly

I so enjoyed the book, reader did excellent job. It held me in suspense but left out some pertinent info

The truth hurts

This story of Auschwitz is awful but the heroism of the captives is mesmerizing. The story of Auschwitz should never be forgotten or repeated. Great book. Beautifully narrated.

Well done

This was an amazing book that I couldn’t stop listening to. Content hard to hear but needs to be heard

I wanted to love it

I wanted to love the book but even up to the end it never captivated me. I found the main character to be annoying and never could connect with her. The voice over wasn’t my favorite either but there are worse. I don’t like leaving a series unfinished but I don’t think I can continue to book number two. There are much better books out there but again I would rate this a 3.

Terrible Narration

It's hard for me to give a review of the story as I could only tolerate the narrator's performance through a few chapters before I had to stop and return the book. I'm guessing it's a great story. However the narrator was so bad I couldn't process what she was saying. If you are bringing a book to an audible format and the story has multiple characters, and you choose to have just one narrator for all characters, the narrator should be able to deliver some distinction and singularity between the characters. There was none. No emotion, no sense of who each character was. A complete disconnect to the nature of the story. Like listening to someone read a newspaper. Badly.