The Mistress of Auschwitz

Mistress of Auschwitz Series, Book 1

By: Terrance D. Williamson

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins

Publisher's summary

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

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 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.

not recommended

I question the manner, the style of how this book was written, for example: No Kapo would mouth off to a SS Officer (chapter 6 the woman who is in charge of the 10 women who were brought to the Hospital to work there) without being reprimanded by the SS. This Kapo was a prisoner herself. And really? An SS officer (same who beat the main character during the morning appel) would then apologize to that same prisoner (Chapter 7)? Not unless that officer had a deathwish himself, to make himself vulnerable to punishment . Therefore the life story and the survival of the Main character have been pushed into the background for the sake of profit - that is how it appears to me, and that is why I cannot recommend the book to anyone who is truly interested in learning about survivors and victims of this terrible time. The Stone Crusher and Ravensbrueck are better suited to learn and to share so that history doesn't become forgotten.

The Mistress of Auschwitz

The biggest disappointment to me was the very abrupt ending. The author spends so long detailing all the goings on in the camp centering around one particular prisoner. Characters are developed as well as relationships. But (and I’ll try not to spoil), Eleanor’s fate is finally looking up and bam! That’s all she wrote.

Meh

First of all I lost count of how many times I rolled my eyes while listening to this audio. The writing was sub-par and the narration was pretty bad. I wanted to like the main character but I just couldn’t connect with her. I didn’t like how the writer included characters (real people) into the storyline. Really, she just happened to meet one of the Ten Boom sisters??

One more thing… this had to have been written by a female ghost writer as some of the story felt way too feminized.

I would not recommend this story to anyone.