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"Whoever listens to a witness, becomes a witness." (Elie Wiesel)
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Isaac was a witness to his Jewish community’s devastation and the tangled aftermath of grief, guilt and grace as survivors returned home. Talking Until Nightfall presents his account of the tragedy and his moving tribute to the living and the dead. His story is woven together with his son Robert’s memories of being a frightened teenager spared by a twist of fate, with an afterword by his grandson Francois that looks back on the survivors’ stories and his family’s place in history. This slim, wrenching account of loss, survival and the strength of the human spirit will captivate listeners and ensure the Jews of Salonica are never forgotten.
Reseñas de la Crítica
"The resurrection and enhancement of [this] 1948 manuscript is a triumph [...] A unique Holocaust memoir." (Kirkus Reviews)
"Powerful [...] This poignant eyewitness account articulates the human cost of the Holocaust." (Publishers Weekly)
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Important Story
- De JAL en 05-28-21
De: Gwen Strauss
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"Promise Me You'll Shoot Yourself"
- The Mass Suicide of Ordinary Germans in 1945
- De: Florian Huber
- Narrado por: Sam Peter Jackson
- Duración: 7 h y 54 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 35
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 35
By the end of April 1945 in Germany, the Third Reich had fallen and invasion was underway. As the Red Army advanced, horrifying stories spread about the depravity of its soldiers. For many German people, there seemed to be nothing left but disgrace and despair. For tens of thousands of them, the only option was to choose death - for themselves and for their children.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This book should be required reading for anyone that seeks to understand how ordinary people could be transformed into monsters.
- De Anonymous User en 05-08-20
De: Florian Huber
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The Last Jews in Berlin
- De: Leonard Gross
- Narrado por: David de Vries
- Duración: 10 h y 39 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 82
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 72
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 72
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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4 out of 5 stars
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Too many characters at once.
- De Andrew Miller en 12-21-23
De: Leonard Gross
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Inge's War
- A German Woman's Story of Family, Secrets, and Survival Under Hitler
- De: Svenja O'Donnell
- Narrado por: Kristin Atherton
- Duración: 9 h y 22 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 52
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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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5 out of 5 stars
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Compelling story, superb narrator
- De Someone who knows en 01-16-24
De: Svenja O'Donnell
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The Escape Artist
- The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World
- De: Jonathan Freedland
- Narrado por: Jonathan Freedland
- Duración: 11 h y 47 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 724
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 649
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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4 out of 5 stars
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Good
- De Matt en 11-10-22
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The Light of Days
- The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos
- De: Judy Batalion
- Narrado por: Mozhan Marno
- Duración: 14 h y 22 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 560
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 481
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 478
One of the most important stories of World War II, already optioned by Steven Spielberg for a major motion picture: a spectacular, searing history that brings to light the extraordinary accomplishments of brave Jewish women who became resistance fighters - a group of unknown heroes whose exploits have never been chronicled in full, until now.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A profoundly moving book
- De Brian R Smith en 04-18-21
De: Judy Batalion
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The Nine
- The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of Nazi Germany
- De: Gwen Strauss
- Narrado por: Juliet Stevenson
- Duración: 13 h y 33 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 370
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 331
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 328
The Nine follows the true story of the author’s great aunt Hélène Podliasky, who led a band of nine female resistance fighters as they escaped a German forced labor camp and made a 10-day journey across the front lines of World War II from Germany back to Paris. Drawing on incredible research, this powerful, heart-stopping narrative is a moving tribute to the power of humanity and friendship in the darkest of times.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Important Story
- De JAL en 05-28-21
De: Gwen Strauss
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- A Novel
- De: Milan Kundera, Michael Henry Heim - translator
- Narrado por: Richmond Hoxie
- Duración: 9 h y 37 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,116
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,845
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,852
A young woman is in love with a successful surgeon, a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing. His mistress, a free-spirited artist, lives her life as a series of betrayals—while her other lover, earnest, faithful, and good, stands to lose everything because of his noble qualities. In a world where lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and fortuitous events, and everything occurs but once, existence seems to lose its substance, its weight. Hence we feel “the unbearable lightness of being."
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4 out of 5 stars
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Love, Politics, and Strange Bedfellows
- De Mel en 07-01-12
De: Milan Kundera, y otros
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
- De: Gabriel García Márquez, Gregory Rabassa - translator
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 14 h y 4 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 6,130
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 5,368
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 5,370
One of the 20th century's enduring works, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world and the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prize-winning career. The novel tells the story of the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. Rich and brilliant, it is a chronicle of life, death, and the tragicomedy of humankind. In the beautiful, ridiculous, and tawdry story of the Buendía family, one sees all of humanity, just as in the history, myths, growth, and decay of Macondo, one sees all of Latin America.
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1 out of 5 stars
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What in the heck happened?????
- De Melinda en 02-05-14
De: Gabriel García Márquez, y otros
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The First Man
- De: Albert Camus
- Narrado por: Jefferson Mays
- Duración: 8 h y 9 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 43
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 39
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 39
In The First Man, Albert Camus tells the story of Jacques Cormery, a boy who lived a life much like his own. Camus summons up the sights, sounds, and textures of a childhood circumscribed by poverty and a father's death yet redeemed by the austere beauty of Algeria and the boy's attachment to his nearly deaf-mute mother. The result is a moving journey through the lost landscape of youth that also discloses the wellsprings of Camus's aesthetic powers and moral vision.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great Narration by Jefferson Mays
- De Sean Patrick Stevens en 07-31-21
De: Albert Camus
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When Time Stopped
- A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains
- De: Ariana Neumann
- Narrado por: Rebecca Lowman
- Duración: 10 h y 6 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 473
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 418
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 417
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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5 out of 5 stars
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yesterday as fresh as today
- De reader mother en 02-17-20
De: Ariana Neumann
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My Friend Anne Frank
- The Inspiring and Heartbreaking True Story of Best Friends Torn Apart and Reunited Against All Odds
- De: Hannah Pick-Goslar, Dina Kraft
- Narrado por: Alix Dunmore
- Duración: 9 h y 29 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 96
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 84
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 83
In 1933, Hannah Pick-Goslar and her family fled Nazi Germany to live in Amsterdam, where she struck up a close friendship with her next-door neighbor, an outspoken and fun-loving young girl named Anne Frank. For several years, the inseparable pair enjoyed a carefree childhood of games, sleepovers, and treats with the other children in their neighborhood of Rivierenbuurt. But in 1942, Hannah and Anne's lives abruptly changed forever.
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5 out of 5 stars
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the missing piece to Anne’s story and the complete picture of Hannah’s
- De Wilson en 07-13-23
De: Hannah Pick-Goslar, y otros
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1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows
- A Memoir
- De: Ai Weiwei, Allan H. Barr - translator
- Narrado por: David Shih
- Duración: 13 h y 7 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 175
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 149
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 148
Once a close associate of Mao Zedong and the nation’s most celebrated poet, Ai Weiwei’s father, Ai Qing, was branded a rightist during the Cultural Revolution, and he and his family were banished to a desolate place known as “Little Siberia,” where Ai Qing was sentenced to hard labor cleaning public toilets. Ai Weiwei recounts his childhood in exile, and his difficult decision to leave his family to study art in America, where he befriended Allen Ginsberg and was inspired by Andy Warhol and the artworks of Marcel Duchamp.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This book changed my life
- De Johnny Nopolis en 08-16-22
De: Ai Weiwei, y otros
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On the Run in Nazi Berlin
- A Memoir
- De: Bert Lewyn, Bev Saltzman Lewyn - contributor
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis, Suzanne Toren
- Duración: 12 h y 50 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 332
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 302
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 298
Berlin, 1942. The Gestapo arrest 18-year-old Bert Lewyn and his parents, sending the latter to their deaths and Bert to work in a factory making guns for the Nazi war effort. Miraculously tipped off the morning the Gestapo round up all the Jews who work in the factories, Bert goes underground. He finds shelter sometimes with compassionate civilians, sometimes with people who find his skills useful and sometimes in the cellars of bombed-out buildings.
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5 out of 5 stars
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NOT YOUR USUAL STORY ABOUT THE NAZIS...FANTASTIC!
- De Steve en 03-21-19
De: Bert Lewyn, y otros
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999
- The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz
- De: Heather Dune Macadam, Caroline Moorehead - foreword
- Narrado por: Suzanne Toren
- Duración: 13 h y 13 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 637
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 578
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 575
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 Nazis to take them as slave labor. Of those 999 innocent deportees, only a few survived.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I don’t think you can ever fully understand
- De Shelley en 02-25-20
De: Heather Dune Macadam, y otros
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The Wall
- De: John Hersey
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall
- Duración: 29 h y 14 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 22
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 22
Riveting and compelling, The Wall tells the inspiring story of 40 men and women who escape the dehumanizing horror of the Warsaw ghetto. John Hersey's novel documents the Warsaw ghetto both as an emblem of Nazi persecution and as a personal confrontation with torture, starvation, humiliation, and cruelty - a gripping and visceral story, impossible to pause.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating
- De Phil en 06-14-21
De: John Hersey
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Mitka’s Secret
- A True Story of Child Slavery and Surviving the Holocaust
- De: Steven W. Brallier, Joel N. Lohr, Lynn G. Beck
- Narrado por: Trevor Thompson
- Duración: 9 h y 53 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 28
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 24
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 23
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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5 out of 5 stars
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This should be a movie!!!
- De Amazon Customer en 09-11-21
De: Steven W. Brallier, y otros
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Five Chimneys
- A Woman Survivor's True Story of Auschwitz
- De: Olga Lengyel
- Narrado por: Jennifer Wydra
- Duración: 8 h y 10 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 399
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 346
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 341
Olga Lengyel tells, frankly and without compromise, one of the most horrifying stories of all time. This true, documented chronicle is the intimate, day-to-day record of a beautiful woman who survived the nightmare of Auschwitz and Birchenau. This book is a necessary reminder of one of the ugliest chapters in the history of human civilization.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Five Chimneys
- De Grannie Annie en 04-03-19
De: Olga Lengyel
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A Train Near Magdeburg
- A Teacher's Journey into the Holocaust
- De: Matthew Rozell
- Narrado por: Nick Cracknell
- Duración: 11 h y 5 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 170
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 152
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 151
From the author of The Things Our Fathers Saw in the World War II eyewitness history series comes this book, offering the true story behind an iconic photograph taken at the liberation of a death train, deep in the heart of Nazi Germany. It's brought to life by the history teacher who discovered it and went on to reunite hundreds of Holocaust survivors with the actual American soldiers who saved them.
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4 out of 5 stars
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important story
- De Amazon Customer en 04-04-20
De: Matthew Rozell