
Rescued from the Ashes
The Diary of Leokadia Schmidt, Survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto
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Rebecca Gibel
The diary of a young Jewish housewife who, together with her husband and five-month-old baby, fled the Warsaw ghetto at the last possible moment, and survived the Holocaust hidden on the "Aryan" side of town in the loft of a run-down tinsmith's shed.
Rescued from the Ashes documents the incredible life story of Leokadia Schmidt and her small family and their daily struggle to survive the Warsaw Ghetto. Her memoir brings to life the vilest and most righteous qualities that people are capable of as she depicts the horrific living conditions in the ghetto and her family's harrowing escapes from the Nazi furnaces.
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Great Story and Good Narrating.
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I think I heard “my husband” 500 times!!
Give the husband a name. It was annoying.
Heartbreaking story
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The story is captivating
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The determination of the characters
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Amazing details
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The only issue with this book is the reader, who seems to think this is a kids book or a teenage fantasy book or something. AWFUL inflections, totally inappropriate for the content. I do think, by maybe hour 13 or so, the reader finally figures out that she should just be doing a straight read, it was that or I just was so beaten down by her poor reading I no longer noticed it. But in any case, the reader here is terrible for the majority of the book.
But the awful reader shouldn't put you off buying this. I've read a ton of WW2 history, and this fills in an area where I haven't seen a lot of content, at least not in audio.
Good book, interesting story
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I don’t think I’ll ever stop consuming stories about WWII—each one is so different, so personal, and so devastating in its own way. Rescued from the Ashes is no exception. It’s a tragically beautiful story, made bearable only by the fact that it ends in survival. But the fear and anxiety it provokes? It’s intense.
Reading about the desperate strategies families used to survive—like couples splitting up or handing off their children to strangers—was gut-wrenching. As a mother, the thought of giving my child away, not knowing where they were or if I’d ever see them again… it’s unimaginable. Yet, for many women in this book, that was the only hope. Babies were almost always a death sentence.
My heart broke multiple times, my anxiety was through the roof, but I couldn’t look away. I kept reading because I knew there was survival at the end—and even that sliver of hope was worth it. A powerful read.
Heartbreaking, Gripping, and Tragically Beautiful
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This was supposed to be a true story?
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