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Auschwitz

A Doctor's Eyewitness Account

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Auschwitz

By: Richard Seaver - translator, Tibere Kremer - translator, Miklos Nyiszli
Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
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Auschwitz was one of the first books to bring the full horror of the Nazi death camps to the American public; this is, as the New York Review of Books said, "the best brief account of the Auschwitz experience available."

When the Nazis invaded Hungary in 1944, they sent virtually the entire Jewish population to Auschwitz. A Jew and a medical doctor, the prisoner Dr. Miklos Nyiszli was spared death for a grimmer fate: to perform "scientific research" on his fellow inmates under the supervision of the man who became known as the infamous "Angel of Death" - Dr. Josef Mengele. Nyiszli was named Mengele's personal research pathologist. In that capacity he also served as physician to the Sonderkommando, the Jewish prisoners who worked exclusively in the crematoriums and were routinely executed after four months. Miraculously, Nyiszli survived to give this horrifying and sobering account.

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Narrator Noah Michael Levine's expressive performance shades in different layers of emotion as he narrates the true story of Jewish prisoner Dr. Miklos Nyiszli, who was spared death and chosen by Dr. Josef Mengele himself to assist in the Nazi doctor's terrible experiments. Levine sensitively evokes both the horror and desire for survival that permeates Dr. Nyiszli's stories of serving as Mengele's personal research pathologist and as the physician to the Sonderkommando, the Jewish prisoners who worked in the crematoriums and were routinely executed every four months. Listeners will find themselves moved by Dr. Nyiszli's moral agony over his role as Mengele's assistant and his ambition to stay alive in order to reveal the truth about Auschwitz.
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Only history through words now, but I actually felt hurt and bruised from the reality of this well told book.

Never Forget

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The narrator sounded robotic and disinterested. There were pauses in the middle of sentences and mispronunciations which were most irritating. I only persevered because the story deserved to be heard. I would avoid this narrator in future.

Terrible narration

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This was a very moving, interesting and eye opening account of a strong willed man who defied death of many occasions. It is was very interesting from a historical perspective, with the later chapters and the descriptions of his personal mental psychology and those of the SS was interesting to hear and showed the potential regret and psychological effects that even the SS experienced from the inhumane actions at Auschwitz. How he managed to survive everything he went through is amazing and he is very lucky to be alive to have written this book. The fact that he not only survived but was reunited with his family who he had saved from the gas chambers was fantastic. If accurate, this truly is one of the most incredible stories ever told.

What an incredible story!

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This tragic story was wonderfully narrated; however the German language words and phrases were incorrectly pronounced.

Pronunciation

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So sad but true it should never have happened all because of dictater and a mad man

Chilling

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