Parallel Lives

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

By: Lena Rotmensz

Narrated by: 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.

Survival of the persecuted

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

The true story is very fascinating British accent awesome

Kept me hooked all the way through. Educational , not one swear word the virtual voice is usually a no for me but this female British accents was very soothing.

The AI Reader was distracting

The story is really quite interesting and I was in to it. The virtual reader just distracted me. I wish I had read this book instead of listening to it. It's not the first book I listened to by a Bot, but this one was really bad. Polish, like a shoe, not Poland. Lots of errors

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.

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.