Parallel Lives

The Remarkable Story of a Young Jewish Family Separated by World War II

De: Lena Rotmensz

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

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 ends up working for a German officer named Robert. In a twist of fate, Robert and Helena fall in love with each other and get married.

Unknown to Liliana, Henry survives and reunites with their daughter Rebecca. He finds a way to communicate with Liliana, only to find out that she started a new life. Liliana has yet to reveal her true identity to her German husband. Filled with guilt and longing for Rebecca, she thinks of putting an end to all of the lies.

Will Liliana finally overcome her fears and reunite with her daughter?

Parallel Lives is based on a true story. It brings the reader on a captivating journey of the “parallel lives” of a family who was separated by war. The journey takes the reader though a myriad of human emotions, including: love, jealousy, fear, despair, and freedom.

AI voice can't correctly pronounce ordinary words. Who monitors that before releasing???

I liked the story and found it compelling. The characters are well developed. But It's a long story to have to hear obvious unnecessary mispronunciations of the same words all through and through.

Survival of the persecuted

Could not put this book down. Survival and living after the concentration camps is a victory.

So much indecision and hurt

I found the story exhausting. I understand the emotional twists and turns after such a traumatic life but it seems such a waste of family memories.
The writing is extremely basic.

Virtual voice was tolorable

This was yet another very interesting story of how generations of lives were affected by the tragedy of WWII. The virtual voice was not terrible like some I've tried to listen to but I still prefer the inflection & enunciation of a human reader.

AI Voice disappoints

This is an interesting story though the writing is mediocre at best. The story is a good one and if written better and read by an actual human, it could have been great. I chose to listen to the end because I was curious about the plot and I also wanted to see how I felt about an AI narrator. Moving forward I will not listen to an AI narrator. I prefer a real human!

Disappointing Virtual Voice Read

The story being read by a virtual assistant is the worst. No emotion. Would not listen to another book!

Unexpected Events

I really enjoyed hearing this unusual true WWII family story. The characters were very well described and the story had many unexpected twists and turns.