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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
- 19-04-18
disappointing
Delivered in a detached robotic American tone it was difficult to connect with the characters events
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- Julie Artist
- 10-08-14
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What made the experience of listening to Auschwitz the most enjoyable?
This was an incredibly difficult book to listen to, but compelling at the same time. I have only ever studied WWII history at school, but I guess I wanted to understand more about the Nazi plan for superiority and the lessons we can all learn to avoid anything like this happening again
What did you like best about this story?
This was written from a first hand experience. I felt as though the witness was somewhat detached from the atrocities. It is hard to judge someone else when they have been through such an experience. I guess we all have an idea of what we do, how we would cope, but the reality is no one knows until they have been there.
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
There were various instances in the book when an individual was described. I found it particularly hard to imagine what despair and trauma these people would have experienced in their final hours.
Any additional comments?
It never ceases to amaze me how quickly humans can justify cruelty, because I am sure the German officers were not born bad, but were made bad by twisted logic. It also serves as a lesson to all of us to never forget and learn from past atrocities. How this could ever be denied beggars belief.
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- Mark Hill
- 27-06-19
Shocking account of mans brutality to man.
Heart rendering account on one man’s journey through hell. Very descriptive, account. Only criticism is the narrator. Would have been better to have a Polish or some other Eastern European to narrate as the American accent didn’t really go. All in all though a very tragic tale beautifully written.
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- Michael Mageean
- 30-11-18
terrible reading was very robotic
story was ok but the reading of it sounded like a robot, that made it a hard listen.
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- M J North
- 09-08-16
Never Forget
Only history through words now, but I actually felt hurt and bruised from the reality of this well told book.
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- Craig
- 29-01-22
Brutal beyond one's comprehension.
Having read so much history regarding the Second World War, I was always drawn to the Final Solution. I visited Auschwitz a few years ago. Walked along the platform, entered the sheds, looked at the gas chamber, walked through and into the crematorium. I could never understand the brutality and cruelty, never. The sordid minds that came up with such an horrific idea as the Final Solution. The medical torture, yes, torture was carried out by barbaric people, sick people.... and we must never forget this. This book stands alone in its horror but its one you must see through to the end to really understand.
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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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- Chris Choi
- 04-02-24
Vile -blames Jews for their own deaths.
Vile and intellectually weak this book should not be taken seriously it’s appalling imo. Wish I’d never head such crap
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- Noodles
- 30-01-24
Harrowing yet compulsive reading
I've read several survivor testimonies and have visited Auschwitz-Birkenau twice. This perspective from Dr.Nyiszli confirms details through his lived experience that I've learned previously, and adds another dimension also.
His determination to stay on the good side of Dr Mengele and SS officers by doing his job meticulously and staying true to his profession, whilst memorising the details he could not write down in his reports, coupled with feeling guilt for what he was doing shines throughout.
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- Peter Gunn
- 25-01-24
An insight in hell.
You might have nightmares after this but its worth it. No emotional shit. Just the terrible truth and a telling of what man can endure when the alternative is death.
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