Outcry: Holocaust Memoirs

By: Manny Steinberg

Narrated by: Gary Steinberg

Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins

Publisher's summary

Mendel (Manny) Steinberg spent his teens in Nazi extermination camps in Germany and Poland, miraculously surviving while millions perished. This is his story.

Born in 1925 in the Jewish ghetto in Radom, Poland, Manny soon realized that people of Jewish faith were increasingly being regarded as outsiders. In September 1939 the Nazis invaded, and the nightmare started. The city's Jewish population had no chance of escaping and was faced with starvation, torture, sexual abuse and ultimately deportation.

Outcry is the candid and moving account of a teenager who survived four Nazi camps: Dachau, Auschwitz, Vaihingen and Neckagerach. While being subjected to torture and degradation, he agonized over two haunting questions: "Why the Jews?" and "How can the world let this happen?" These questions remain hard to answer.

Manny's brother Stanley had jumped off the cattle wagon on the way to the extermination camp where his mother and younger brother were to perish. Desperately lonely and hungry, Stanley stood outside the compound hoping to catch a glimpse of Manny and their father. Once he discovered that they were among the prisoners, he turned himself in. The days were marked by hunger, cold, hard labor, and fear. Knowing that other members of the family were in the same camp kept them alive. Since acknowledging each other would have meant death, they pretended to be complete strangers.

Manny relates how he was served human flesh and was forced to shave the heads of female corpses and pull out their teeth. Cherishing a picture of his beloved mother in his wooden shoe, he miraculously survived the terror of the Polish and German concentration camps together with his father and brother.

©1990, 2015 Manny Steinberg (P)2015 Brainjuice, Inc

fantastic book!!!

This book was incredible!! it put me there and i could feel what was happening. I it brought many tears to my eyes as well as some smiles. this book shows how quickly things go from normal everyday leaving to absolute hell in the blink of an eye. makes me see what's going on now in our own country USA with the censoring and shunning of American Christian conservatives?? just a matter of time and I see things happening soon on a greater scale than the holocaust.

Heartwrenching

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What an amazing experience to hear about the lives of the Steinberg brothers and their father living in concentration camps during the Holocaust. Manny was just 13 years old when his family was taken by the Germans. After six years in captivity Manny wrote his story. The narration is done by Manny's son which makes it even more compelling.

Moving and Heartfelt Autobiography

The story was very moving, emotional and at times funny. Good rendition of someone who lived through the Holocaust without being too visceral. Unfortunately, the narration could be annoying for sometimes sounding too childish or lacking the emotion to represent the written word.

Wow!! I am still thinking of how these family survived

I have read hundreds of books about the holocaust and this read/listen is worth the credit. The book is descriptive but not too graphic (I do like them graphic though 😳). It’s easy to listen - not too long, not to short. I wanted to get back to it to find out what happened next.
I highly recommend it !!

Heartbreaking and beautiful

I loved this story and the poignant narration. The story is so riveting, and told from the perspective of a young boy, who inadvertently grew up in concentration camps. Ultimately it’s a story of survival against all odds, and the treasure of freedom.

Outcry: Holocaust memoirs

Gut-wrenching and very disturbing to any rationality. Manny had a captivating writing style that had me personally invested. Marvelously narrated. I truly appreciate the courage to relive such horrific events to be able to open eyes to the true terrors that people endured

Compelling Eye-witness Account

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This book was written as a first-hand account of the Nazi holocaust from the point-of-view of someone who was there, a Jew, a survivor, from the start until the end. What he experienced and witnessed should cause a person to become cold and bitter, but throughout the book, Mr. Steinberg never fails to deliver a message of hope. As someone who has never come close to the horrors Manny faced for many, many years during WWII, I can only guess at how I would react and ultimately survive under similar circumstances.

That he is alive today to tell his story is truly a blessing, and I thank him for being brave enough to relive an unthinkable past, and make the world all the wiser for it.

The narration, delivered by Manny's son Gary, has the expected choppiness of one who is not a professional reader, but the closeness of the narrator to the author allows for a great deal of latitude in the delivery, given the clear emotion and care with which Gary reads his father's word.

In G-d’s hands

A family began humbly, living a Torah honoring life. You quickly feel connected to all of them. The tragedies lived through, are faced head on with honest accounting. I loved that this is a story where the author would still reach out to HaShem in impossible situations. I loved learning how their lives were rebuilt.

so sad but very educational

love the true story. so sad but very aware about what happened during that time. God Bless 🇺🇸

A story of triumph

Other reviewers have said the narration is terrible and hard to get through. I disagree. OUTCRY is read by Manny's son, not an actor or voice actor. It's a memoir told in 1st person. The narration isn't smooth and that's part of what makes it work. the voice is authentic and makes this story feel different than other Holocaust memoirs I've read.
Because Manny was just Boy in the Holocaust, the narration feels real, and there are moments when the painful emotions are heard in his voice.

Thus is a powerful story of survival, some luck, a few miracles, and most importantly, triumph over evil.