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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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There is no doubt that everything within this book is truly terrifying, but I have also have a friend who was telling me about a book called "An Auschwitz Doctor's Eyewitness Account: The Tall Tales of Dr. Mengele's Assistant Analyzed" which claims that Nyszli is "either an extraordinary impostor or a lunatic".... So I was unable to take the recount of the ordeal as complete truth... Nor do I discredit everything said.... I am sure there is a grey area in the middle of these two books where the facts/truth actually lies.

Interesting and terrifying but....

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It would have been terrifying. And the fact that anyone lived after being sent to Auschwitz, is nothing short of miracle.
But, I did often wonder if the 'good doctor' and surviver, was self deluded a lot of the time, and did enjoy the recognition
he received from these butchers, that were his superiors.
I apologise if I am wrong, but I do not see this doctor as an innocent.

"Lest we forget"

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This is a deeply disturbing first-hand look at a very nuanced aspect of the horror of Auschwitz. I have read a lot about Auschwitz previously but this was a next-level, eye-opening detailing of circumstances that surpass evil, told by a person who was never supposed to make it out alive to tell of the horror. The matter-of-fact telling of this tale makes the subject matter extremely jarring. This audibook is magnificent & I would recommend it to anyone with an interest in World War 2, particularly the experience of Auschwitz, but it's absolutely not for the faint-hearted.

Disturbing & candid

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Super interesting if you are in interested in Auschwitz history. Well written and presented in a matter-of-fact non-emotive manner.

Very good.

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This is a tragic, but must be told recount of a doctor who survived Auschwitz. He spares no details.
The narrator has a harsh American accent, which is not pleasant (so maybe fitting with the unpleasant nature of the book?) but also just does not sound correct. It should be told with a European accent

A hard listen

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