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Here is a thrilling, uplifting story of true-life heroism unequaled since the publication of Anne Frank’s diary - a story that the young must hear and their elders must remember. Take Alicia’s hand - and follow.
Her name is Alicia. She was 13 when she began saving the lives of people she did not know - while fleeing the Nazis through war-ravaged Poland.
Her family cruelly wrenched from her, Alicia rescued other Jews from the Gestapo, led them to safe hideouts, and lent them her courage and hope. Even the sight of her mother’s brutal murder could not quash this remarkable child’s faith in human goodness - or her determination to prevail against overwhelming odds.
After the war, Alicia continued to risk her life, leading Polish Jews on an underground route to freedom in Palestine. She swore on her brother’s grave that if she survived, she would speak for her silenced family. This book is the eloquent fulfillment of that oath.
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In 1943, with Lvov's 150,000 Jews having been exiled, killed, or forced into ghettos and facing extermination, a group of Polish Jews daringly sought refuge in the city's sewer system. The last surviving member this group, Krystyna Chiger, shares one of the most intimate, harrowing, and ultimately triumphant tales of survival to emerge from the Holocaust. The Girl in the Green Sweater is Chiger's harrowing first-person account of the 14 months she spent with her family in the fetid, underground sewers of Lvov.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent writing. And a wonderful story!
- By Justin Aaron on 05-03-24
By: Krystyna Chiger, and others
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The Day the Nazis Came
- The True Story of a Childhood Journey to the Dark Heart of a German Prison Camp
- By: Stephen Matthews
- Narrated by: Barnaby Edwards
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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The Day the Nazis Came is an utterly unique memoir, depicting the world of prison camps through the eyes of a child. Stephen's parents did their best to protect his emotional well-being, downplaying the extent of dangers and presenting every new day as an adventure. But there is only so much you can do to hide such a dark truth and, by the time he was six years old, Stephen Matthews had actually seen and experienced things of unspeakable horror.
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5 out of 5 stars
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So we'll narrated....engaging.
- By Doug Stevens on 04-14-24
By: Stephen Matthews
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A Girl Called Renee
- By: Ruth Uzrad
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Terrified after her father's arrest by the Nazis, Ruth flees to Belgium. This is the unbelievable autobiographical story of Ruth Uzrad, a Jewish teenager whose life was turned upside down by the Nazi regime. After her father was arrested one night from their Berlin apartment by the Gestapo, Ruth's mother sends 13-year-old Ruth and her two younger sisters out on their escape route across Europe by train to the safety of Belgium. But then the Nazis also reach Belgium, driving Ruth into the French Jewish underground....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wow, story well told
- By Kamalei on 09-21-23
By: Ruth Uzrad
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All the Horrors of War
- A Jewish Girl, a British Doctor, and the Liberation of Bergen-Belsen
- By: Bernice Lerner
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
- Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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On April 15, 1945, Brigadier H. L. Glyn Hughes entered Bergen-Belsen for the first time. Waiting for him were 10,000 unburied, putrefying corpses and 60,000 living prisoners, starving and sick. One month earlier, 15-year-old Rachel Genuth arrived at Bergen-Belsen; deported with her family from Sighet, Transylvania, in May of 1944, Rachel had by then already endured Auschwitz, the Christianstadt labor camp, and a forced march through the Sudetenland.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Definitely must listen to
- By Misti on 08-10-23
By: Bernice Lerner
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Behind the Fireplace
- Memoirs of a Girl Working in the Dutch Resistance
- By: Andrew Scott, Grietje Okma Scott
- Narrated by: Esther Wane
- Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 21
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As World War II progressed, the Okma family took six Jewish refugees into their house, hiding them in a secret room behind their fireplace. The youngest daughter, Kieks, joined the Resistance, delivering illegal newspapers, guiding British parachutists around The Hague and preparing safe houses for Special Forces who were dropped in from England.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Truth of Difficult Situation
- By wendy.fleming on 04-08-24
By: Andrew Scott, and others
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My Family's Survival
- The True Story of How the Shwartz Family Escaped the Nazis and Survived the Holocaust
- By: Aviva Gat
- Narrated by: Callie Beaulieu, Neil Hellegers
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1937, the Shwartz family lived a calm life in their small village in Poland. Fifteen-year-old Rachel liked to sing and go out dancing at a local night club, while her older brother David was busy running a farm and raising a family with his wife Hinda. But all that changed when the war reached Butla. First, the Russians came and kicked them out of their house. Then, the Nazis came to cart them off. But the Shwartz family resisted. David decided that no matter what, his family would not be taken captive. Instead, he snuck his family out of their village and into Hungary.
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5 out of 5 stars
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One of the best!
- By Ian on 08-11-20
By: Aviva Gat
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Wicked Women
- Notorious, Mischievous, and Wayward Ladies from the Old West
- By: Chris Enss
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
- Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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This collection of short, action-filled stories of the Old West's most egregiously badly behaved female outlaws, gamblers, soiled doves, and other wicked women offers a glimpse into the Western women's experience that's less sunbonnets and more six-shooters. During the late 1800s, while men were settling the new frontier and rushing off to the latest boomtowns, women of easy virtue found wicked lives west of the Mississippi when they followed fortune hunters seeking gold and land in an unsettled territory.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Strong Women Out West
- By William R. Todd-Mancillas (Name includes hyphen and capitalized M). on 09-15-15
By: Chris Enss
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Flory
- A Miraculous Story of Survival
- By: Flory A. Van Beek
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Like Anne Frank, Flory Van Beek was a young girl caught in the ruthless Nazi occupation of Holland. But Flory survived to recount her extraordinary story of persecution and survival. Flory and her husband, Felix, endured the sinking of a ship bound for safety in the New World, the increasing danger of the occupation, and finally a life in hiding. This inspiring account vividly captures the terror of the Holocaust while telling a poignant story of love and courage.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Inspiring Story
- By Donna on 05-29-09
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Crown of Blood
- The Deadly Inheritance of Lady Jane Grey
- By: Nicola Tallis
- Narrated by: Anne Flosnik
- Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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"Good people, I am come hither to die, and by a law I am condemned to the same." These were the heartbreaking words of a 17-year-old girl, Lady Jane Grey, as she stood on the scaffold awaiting death on a cold February morning in 1554. Minutes later, her head was struck from her body with a single stroke of a heavy ax. Her death for high treason sent shock waves through the Tudor world and served as a gruesome reminder to all who aspired to a crown that the ax could fall at any time.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brilliantly Compelling
- By J.Brock on 11-26-19
By: Nicola Tallis
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Call of the American Wild
- A Tenderfoot's Escape to Alaska
- By: Guy Grieve
- Narrated by: Steve West
- Length: 13 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Trapped in a job he hated and up to his neck in debt, Guy Grieve’s life was going nowhere. But with a stroke of luck, his dream of escaping it all to live in remote Alaska suddenly came true. Miles from the nearest human being and armed with only the most basic equipment, Guy built a log cabin from scratch and began carving a life for himself through fishing, hunting, and diligently avoiding bears. Packed with adventure, humor, and insight, this is the gripping story of an ordinary man learning the ways of the wild.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Maybe not really kinda true?
- By colleen on 06-01-13
By: Guy Grieve
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Where Children Run
- By: Karen Emilson
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
- Length: 16 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 87
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Twins David and Dennis Pischke's lives change forever when their father dies and a man damaged by the war arrives at their farm near the isolated town of Moosehorn, Manitoba. Boleslaw Domko quickly works his way into their lives and their mother's bed. Where Children Run opens with one of their earliest memories - the day Domko throws their infant stepsister against the wall. In this firsthand account, the twins recall years of neglect, starvation, and enslavement; horrific beatings and candlelit nights spent in the nearby St. Thomas Lutheran Church.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Reader's Comments
- By Kindle Customer on 02-10-20
By: Karen Emilson
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Someday You Will Understand
- My Father's Private World War II
- By: Nina Wolff Feld
- Narrated by: Nina Wolff Feld
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Telling the rousing story of a Jewish boy who fled persecution and returned to prosecute the Nazi oppressors, Walter Wolff's daughter Nina has reconstructed these events from family lore and her father’s own cache of more than 700 wartime letters and 200 photographs, which he revealed to her shortly before he died.
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4 out of 5 stars
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LETTERS FROM MY FATHER DURING WW2
- By ZacharyKindle Customer on 01-17-18
By: Nina Wolff Feld
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Hiding in the Spotlight
- A Musical Prodigy's Story of Survival: 1941-1946
- By: Greg Dawson
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren, Kevin Pariseau
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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By the age of six, Zhanna had developed a repertoire fellow students twice her age would envy. Scholarships to the most prestigious conservatories in the Soviet Union soon followed - conservatories that had produced legends like Rachmaninoff, Kogan, and Horowitz.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent story, great narrator!!
- By Abigail on 04-04-21
By: Greg Dawson
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The Strange Ways of Providence in My Life
- By: Krystyna Carmi, Katarzyna Stewart - translator
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 6 hrs
- Unabridged
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Krystyna Carmi's childhood in Obertyn was full of happy moments. Her childhood was filled with friends, both Polish and Ukrainian, and she attended a Ukrainian school. Krystyna Carmi was gifted with an extraordinary memory, and in this memoir, she vividly recounts the history of her family and her life before, during, and after World War II. But her happy childhood did not last long; World War II changed it forever. The worst was still ahead for the Jewish community in Obertyn and for Krystyna's family.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A girl
- By dixie on 06-05-23
By: Krystyna Carmi, and others
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Beyond the Last Path
- A Buchenwald Survivor's Story
- By: Eugene Weinstock
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 6 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 25
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This is the story of No. 22483, who had been shipped from Belgium to Buchenwald. It records what he saw and felt during his calvary from Antwerp to the Malin distribution camp in France and from there to the extermination camp of Buchenwald. He was one of the few people who both entered a Nazi concentration camp and left again. This is his remarkable personal story that records his experiences of one of the most harrowing events in human history.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Is it a testimony, or a work of fiction?
- By Noa on 01-01-20
By: Eugene Weinstock
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Mengele
- The Complete Story
- By: Gerald Posner, John Ware, Michael Berenbaum - introduction
- Narrated by: Bruce Mann
- Length: 15 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 138
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Based on exclusive and unrestricted access to more than 5,000 pages of personal writings and family photos, this definitive biography of German physician and SS-Hauptsturmfuhrer Josef Mengele (1911-1979) probes the personality and motivations of Auschwitz's "Angel of Death". From May 1943 through January 1945, Mengele selected who would be gassed immediately, who would be worked to death, and who would serve as involuntary guinea pigs for his spurious and ghastly human experiments (twins were Mengele's particular obsession).
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1 out of 5 stars
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ONE OF THE WORST BOOKS I HAVE EVER READ
- By PAUL on 08-02-20
By: Gerald Posner, and others
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The Real Diana
- By: Lady Colin Campbell
- Narrated by: Sophie Roberts
- Length: 15 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 138
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Royal insider Lady Colin Campbell sets the record straight on many of the most controversial aspects of Diana's turbulent life. In The Real Diana, she reveals that the reason she knew so much about what went on behind the palace gates was because Diana herself was the source. Drawing upon these confidences - as well as on conversations with countless people who knew Diana and with Diana herself in the final years of her life - Lady Colin Campbell combines true insight with true compassion to bring us the most intimate and revealing portrait of the Princess of Wales.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Not to my taste
- By Esther on 08-17-22
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- LadySooner
- 08-26-22
Compelling
Very detailed account of Alicia & her family during the war & what she had to do to survive. She's a remarkable peraon.
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- Melissa
- 04-29-23
A true hunger games
Such a humbling story of courage. Alicia is a strong heroic female. This book is inspiration evoking.
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- cherie
- 05-08-23
My heart is so full of love for Alicia
This book touched the very core of my heart I’m still thinking and crying what all these people have gone through I will ever be thankful of the knowledge I have of knowing we will all be united again in another time and loving peaceful place Thank you for this beautiful book ❤️
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- Serenitee
- 10-24-22
Compelling and inspirational Must read
I am so thankful for her willingness to go back into the nightmare to bring this book to fruition. While I have read many accounts of the holocaust this one was different. Seen through the eyes of a child that became an adult so young. A daily walk in the life and the courageous ingenuity used to care for and generously share all that she had and more.
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- 03-24-22
harrowing and heroic
lots and lots of details to follow through one of the most heroic and harrowing stories I've read about wwii survivors. the (jewish) author was persecuted beyond all imagination. she perseveres, displays heroic, intelligent, and fortuitous moxie. not a story that will be easy to forget. the world is a better place for the life of this amazing woman and so are those who are privileged to learn her life story.
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- Dalton b.
- 10-06-22
Great read
This was a great view all I have ever read was about concentration camps never about people hiding I have never heard of that it was a great book and I learned a lot she was a brave and grate women
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- Amazon Customer
- 05-14-22
Very good book!
This is a must read! Very touching and emotional. Alicia Appleman-Jurman is incredibly inspiring and a true hero.
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- susanna white
- 08-06-22
A should be required reading!
Heart wrenching tale that all humans should read . Beautifully read, gripping story and generally powerful listen.
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- Amazon Customer
- 02-12-23
Moving story of resilience
It’s hard to fathom the evil that can exist in human hearts, or the resilience of the victims of that evil. Let us never forget.
I’ve listened to other books by this narrator and always enjoy them.
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- J Hutch
- 11-08-23
FANTASTIC READ
What an amazing courageous woman. I hope they make this into a miniseries soon! I loved it and the narrator did a fantastic job. Best read in a long time.
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