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999
- The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 13 hrs and 13 mins
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Publisher's summary
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 the Nazis to take them as slave labor. Of those 999 innocent deportees, only a few would survive.
The facts of the first official Jewish transport to Auschwitz are little known, yet profoundly relevant today. These were not resistance fighters or prisoners of war. There were no men among them. Sent to almost certain death, the young women were powerless and insignificant not only because they were Jewish - but also because they were female. Now acclaimed author Heather Dune Macadam reveals their poignant stories, drawing on extensive interviews with survivors, and consulting with historians, witnesses, and relatives of those first deportees to create an important addition to Holocaust literature and women's history.
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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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Great story with an added benefit
- By Scottsville Stu on 12-30-21
By: Rebecca Frankel
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Echoes from the Holocaust
- A Memoir
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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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- By Christine Newton on 06-09-17
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The Watchmaker's Daughter
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The Watchmaker’s Daughter is one of the greatest stories of World War II that listeners haven’t heard: the remarkable and inspiring life story of Corrie ten Boom—a groundbreaking, female Dutch watchmaker, whose family unselfishly transformed their house into a hiding place straight out of a spy novel to shelter Jews and refugees from the Nazis during Gestapo raids. Even though the Nazis knew what the ten Booms were up to, they were never able to find those sheltered within the house when they raided it.
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Good effort!
- By Michele on 03-07-23
By: Larry Loftis
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Mitka’s Secret
- A True Story of Child Slavery and Surviving the Holocaust
- By: Steven W. Brallier, Joel N. Lohr, Lynn G. Beck
- Narrated by: Trevor Thompson
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
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This is Mitka’s account of facing the past, confronting his captors, connecting with lost relatives, and finding peace in the rediscovery of his origins. For Mitka, this also meant reclaiming his Jewish heritage - a journey that gave him a new sense of purpose and freedom from the lingering effects of trauma that had filled his life to that point. By the end, Mitka’s Secret is less a story of survival and more one of redemption and transformation - from hidden suffering to abundant joy.
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This should be a movie!!!
- By Amazon Customer on 09-11-21
By: Steven W. Brallier, and others
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The Escape Artist
- The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World
- By: Jonathan Freedland
- Narrated by: Jonathan Freedland
- Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins
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In April 1944, Rudolf Vrba became one of the very first Jews to escape from Auschwitz and make his way to freedom—among only a tiny handful who ever pulled off that near-impossible feat. He did it to reveal the truth of the death camp to the world—and to warn the last Jews of Europe what fate awaited them. Against all odds, Vrba and his fellow escapee, Fred Wetzler, climbed mountains, crossed rivers, and narrowly missed German bullets until they had smuggled out the first full account of Auschwitz the world had ever seen.
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Good
- By Matt on 11-10-22
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When Time Stopped
- A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains
- By: Ariana Neumann
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
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In this remarkably moving memoir Ariana Neumann dives into the secrets of her father’s past: years spent hiding in plain sight in war-torn Berlin, the annihilation of dozens of family members in the Holocaust, and the courageous choice to build anew.
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yesterday as fresh as today
- By reader mother on 02-17-20
By: Ariana Neumann
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The Nazi’s Granddaughter
- How I Discovered My Grandfather Was a War Criminal
- By: Silvia Foti
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A deathbed promise leads a daughter on an incredible journey to write about her grandfather who was a famous war hero. But this journey had a terrible destination: the discovery that he was a Nazi war criminal.
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A Compelling Story Well Told
- By Catherine S. Read on 03-17-22
By: Silvia Foti
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The Last Jews in Berlin
- By: Leonard Gross
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When Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933, approximately 160,000 Jews called Berlin home. By 1943 less than 5,000 remained in the nation's capital, the epicenter of Nazism, and by the end of the war, that number had dwindled to 1,000. All the others had died in air raids, starved to death, committed suicide, or been shipped off to the death camps. In this captivating and harrowing book, Leonard Gross details the real-life stories of a dozen Jewish men and women who spent the final 27 months of World War II underground, hiding in plain sight.
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Great History Lesson
- By Kerri Smith on 07-01-24
By: Leonard Gross
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The Happiest Man on Earth
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- By: Eddie Jaku
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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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Everyone needs to listen to this amazing man
- By Christan Derryberry on 05-12-21
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The Dressmakers of Auschwitz
- The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive
- By: Lucy Adlington
- Narrated by: Lucy Adlington
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At the height of the Holocaust, 25 young inmates of the infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp - mainly Jewish women and girls - were selected to design, cut, and sew beautiful fashions for elite Nazi women in a dedicated salon. It was work that they hoped would spare them from the gas chambers. This fashion workshop - called the Upper Tailoring Studio - was established by Hedwig Höss, the camp commandant’s wife, and patronized by the wives of SS guards and officers.
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Not what I expected given description and preview
- By Kaeli Mathes on 09-24-21
By: Lucy Adlington
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Born Survivors
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- By: Wendy Holden
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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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Just an incredible story!
- By PCF on 06-03-17
By: Wendy Holden
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Inge's War
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- By: Svenja O'Donnell
- Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
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Growing up in Paris, the daughter of a German mother and an Irish father, Svenja O'Donnell knew little of her family's German past. In this transporting and illuminating audiobook, the award-winning journalist vividly reconstructs the story of her grandmother Inge's life from the rise of the Nazis through the brutal postwar years, from falling in love with a man who was sent to the Eastern Front just after she became pregnant with his child, to spearheading her family's flight as the Red Army closed in, her young daughter in tow.
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Ordinary German Citizens Caught Up
- By Hinterlander on 08-22-23
By: Svenja O'Donnell
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- sharon hemsley
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Amazing
It was a wonderful but heartbreaking read. I would recommend it to everyone as a reminder of the evil inside humans.
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- Kirstin K.
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Read it.
This book is not for the faint of heart but it is necessary to read, it is so well done and so truthful in the experiences, heartbreaking yes, enlightening yes, worthwhile absolutely.
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- Cheryl C
- 03-08-21
6 Million stars
My only wish is that this would be mandatory reading for all the world to read. In today's society it seems everyone feels we deserve special privileges due to the way our ancestors were treated. I believe if everyone one truly looked backed through history were could all find injustices. None however in my eyes this cruel to so many men, women and children. This is a fact based masterpiece. So well written and performed and I will carry these pages in my heart for the rest of my life. Thank you for all your hard work and research.
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- Lucie Sabella
- 02-21-23
Most important history
This is a must read for every citizen of the world. Thank you for your hard work, thorough investigation, and kindness with which you reported the stories of this remarkable cadre of invincible women.
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- carol m. yates
- 01-30-20
Understanding transport and lies, Never Forget
Carol Vance Michigan
Ms. Macadam writes about a painful chapter in World history. Single women from Slovakia were offered work, little did they know it was not to be. These young women knew each other in Slovakia and were the 1st Jews to be transported to Auschwitz. The book weaves together their journey and survival of the worst 3 years one can imagine. Yet, there is more than history. Their stories are stories of healing and of hope, of love and courage, of sisterhood.
I recommend reading their stories, not as another holocaust book, but to meet brave women who held onto hope as hard as that is to imagine.
Suzanne Toren narration is excellent.
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- kimberly eisner
- 03-08-21
wow
wow, wow, wow..this is the most intense book regarding concentration camps that I have ever read (listened to). The narrator was amazing.
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- boofinrob
- 03-07-21
Different than most Holocaust accounts
Somehow this book made me understand more what it must have been like to be in the death camp. At first I found it annoying for the prisoner numbers to be interjected after each name, but after awhile I came to appreciate it and it actually enhanced the book greatly. I came to love these girls, and mourn for them and rejoice for them. I am a woman and perhaps partially because of that I found this to the most personal and informative account I have ever read. I am amazed, saddened, but most of all deeply humbled by their story.
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- Amazon Customer
- 05-08-23
Must Read
A definite must read!
Even though they are gone, they will NEVER! Be forgotten. Love.
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- JWalkup
- 01-05-24
Simply unimaginable
one of the most detailed and insight books on this subject that I have ever listed to. The cruelty is overwhelming but the ability to survive is truly memorable
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- jan
- 05-11-24
outstanding
I found this book to be an outstanding example of another aspect of the Holocaust that has been hidden and forgotten. I had no idea that girls and young women were some of the first to be mislead, taken and confined in the concentration camps. I am shocked that any of these women survived.
The writing style of this author kept me focused on the book until it was finished. And it left me wanting more! The introduction of each person, the relationships and interrelationships of the woman flowed easily! Such a well scripted and intricate style takes great talent!
As a side note, I want to share that I had a great conversation about the people in the book with my 20-year-old grandson. He was interested in learning more.
To those who wrote or contributed in any way, I'd report you achieved your goal!
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