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Title: Juden Arbeit Macht Frei

Author: James Stephens

Narrator: Steven Jay Cohen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-15-16

Publisher: Stephen Briggs

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Poland 1939. After Nazi Germany conquers the Polish army in just over two weeks, and one Jewish family fight for survival begins. Like the rest of the once thriving Jewish community, they are all forced to leave there beautiful home in Warsaw, and into the slums of the ghettos. Inside these walled cities disease and starvation are rife, which is a daily part of ghetto life. However despite of all the degradation, the family settles into their new surroundings, and they take solace as they remain as a family.

After several years of living this life, their world is again thrown into chaos, when orders are received to "liquidate" the ghettos.

Isaac and his son Jacob during their "normal" day are rounded up, as are the other families and residences, by the ruthless and barbaric Nazi regime. To Isaac and Jacob's horror, they helplessly stand and watch as Isaac's wife Judith, and their baby daughter Eve; are torn away from them, and taken away, into a life of slavery.

Isaac and Jacob are also rounded up, their fate already decided, is one of the unknown. After several hours aboard a crammed cattle train, they arrive at their destination. They are now two prisoners amongst thousands of their own people at the Nazi's most notorious concentration camps, which they now know to be Auschwitz.

They are soon put to work, disposing of the countless victims, who have been brutally murdered by the Nazi's. Although after being a part of the most harrowing and vile operations, Isaac and eventually Jacob are fortunately reprieved, and become part of the commandant personal staff at his attached villa, only a few meters away from the camp itself.

Here they meet Mary another Jew, and housekeeper to the commandant Rudolph Höss. All three form a close bond, and perform their duties to the best of their abilities.

Members Reviews:

Poorly researched... poorly written... poorly edited...

I would like to write some sort of positive review for this book, but I can't. The author seems to have researched just enough facts to keep the timeline and major characters more or less accurate - at least superficially - but that is it. The situations are impossible to believe. The fictional family of this story comes across as forced and not credible at all - extremely one dimentional. In fact, they are so sickeningly sweet that it literally made me want to gag. If this were a true story, it would make this family the luckiest victims of WWII. It is just not believable - not even as a fictitious story. There are so many spelling, grammar and other writing errors that it is very difficult to read. Some of these errors are as simple as using the word 'are' for the word 'our'. This is just one example of innumerable, and unforgivable errors I found - beginning on page one. The writing is juvenile. The story is trite and uninteresting. For example: The over-use of the 'chocolate' as a metaphor for (I will make a leap here) hope felt unnecessary, WAY overused and fake. If I were to guess, knowing nothing about this author, I would guess this was a work of a young person (possibly an average (at best) high school student) trying his hand at being a writer, or someone who decided to self-publish without proper editing. The author fails. Miserably.