
TREASURES of SADNESS
A True Story of Resilience, Survival and Unbroken Spirit of a Civilian Dutch Woman in Europe During World War II
Failed to add items
Add to Cart failed.
Add to Wish List failed.
Remove from wishlist failed.
Adding to library failed
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Buy for $4.99
No default payment method selected.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
-
Narrated by:
-
Virtual Voice
-
By:
-
CORRIE SMITH

This title uses virtual voice narration
About this listen
Survival and Unbroken Spirit
A Civilian Dutch Woman in Europe During World War II
Treasures of Sadness is the story of Corrie's unbroken spirit.
If you love historical fiction, don't miss reading this real life memoir and page-turner: Treasures of Sadness
Treasures of Sadness is a real life account of a woman’s journey that began during World War II. Corrie grew up in an affluent neighborhood in Amersfoort, Holland in the 1940’s. From there she fell in love with a German soldier, rubbed elbows with royalty in Vienna, Austria and ended up in a coal mining town of West Virginia. There, she gave birth to one son and eventually ended up alone in the housing projects of Tennessee. From her journey she was able to take away some of life’s treasures: perseverance, patience, strength, grit, positivity, inner peace, personal growth, and survival.
"It is one thing to have a compelling story to tell. Quite another to put it on to paper so it flows for the reader! In this case, both apply. Open the cover, turn the pages and receive a gift." - Mark Skomp
"An inspirational story of a young woman's struggle for survival during the German occupation of Europe in WWII." - Paul Jolley
"It touches on what comes of humanity when stretched to the breaking point and how different individuals respond to it. There are so many books out there about WWII and the lives of soldiers but very few touch on the every day citizens that are left in it's wake. I myself have read many WWII books but I had never viewed it through the eyes of a citizen the way this book allowed me to do. It is an easy yet powerful read that is hard to put down that allows you to view the best and worst of humanity.” -David Melton
“I learned so much and felt so many emotions reading Treasures of Sadness. It is truly amazing what one person goes through in a lifetime. Corrie's story is inspiring and heartrending. The amount of dedication, devotion, and love she had was so transparent throughout the entire book. She really does have an unbroken spirit. It is one of those books where you start and can't put it down." -Jennifer Gerads
People who viewed this also viewed...
-
Saving Rebecca
- A WW2 historical novel about a mother’s devotion
- By: Alex Amit
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In the shadow of the Nazi regime, one woman fights to shield her daughter from the talons of evil. Paris, 1941. Sarah, a Jewish woman, finds herself trapped in the city with her five-year-old daughter, Rebecca, as World War II rages on. Desperate to escape the tightening grip of Nazi oppression, they attempt to flee to neutral Spain. However, their hopes are shattered as they are captured by the French police and sent to the Drancy internment camp, located north of Paris, where French Jews are being ruthlessly rounded up by the Nazi authorities. Within the confines of the camp, surrounded ...
-
-
Trying to save the author’s child
- By Julie Johnson on 05-19-25
By: Alex Amit
-
Beyond the Wire
- By: James D. Shipman
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
October 1944: In the long, narrow undressing rooms in Auschwitz-Birkenau, prisoner Jakub Bak toils under the scrutiny of SS guards. Like other members of the Sonderkommando, Jakub was selected on arrival for an unthinkable job: sorting through the clothes of the dead and moving their bodies from the gas chambers to the crematoriums. Jakub clings to the promise he made to his murdered father - to live, at any cost - and to the moments he is able to spend in the company of Anna, imprisoned in the women's camp.
-
-
Excellent Book! Love this story!!
- By Julie Johnson on 04-27-25
By: James D. Shipman
-
Save My Children
- An Astonishing Tale of Survival and Its Unlikely Hero
- By: Leon Kleiner, Edwin Stepp
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
An eleven-year-old boy and his siblings fight for survival after the evil of the Nazi regime descends upon Poland. Time after time, they miraculously escape certain death as the murderous fascists attempt to make their hometown of Tluste Judenrein. Their luck seems to have run out when the Germans order to liquidate their work camp. Unexpected help comes from Timush, a man known for his terrible deeds against the Jews.
-
-
Not to be missed.
- By Claire on 03-14-25
By: Leon Kleiner, and others
-
The Factory Girls of Lark Lane
- Lark Lane, Book 1
- By: Pam Howes
- Narrated by: Georgia Maguire
- Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
1940, Liverpool: Alice Turner and her best friend, Millie Markham, work for the war effort at Rootes munitions factory, making shell caps and Halifax bombers. Alice’s sweetheart, Terry, is home from the front for a brief period of leave. But the honeymoon is soon over. Terry must go back to the dangers of Nazi-occupied France, and the ever-present air raid sirens quickly bring Alice back down to earth.
-
-
Light story about Britain during WWII
- By Juliana on 05-14-25
By: Pam Howes
-
On Hitler's Mountain
- Overcoming the Legacy of a Nazi Childhood
- By: Irmgard A. Hunt
- Narrated by: Christa Lewis
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Growing up in the beautiful mountains of Berchtesgaden - just steps from Adolf Hitler's alpine retreat - Irmgard Hunt had a seemingly happy, simple childhood. In her powerful, illuminating, and sometimes frightening memoir, Hunt recounts a youth lived under an evil but persuasive leader. As she grew older, the harsh reality of war - and a few brave adults who opposed the Nazi regime - aroused in her skepticism of National Socialist ideology and the Nazi propaganda she was taught to believe in.
-
-
A rare and very much appreciated perspective.
- By tabounds on 12-28-17
By: Irmgard A. Hunt
-
The Way Through The Woods
- A Child’s Escape Through the Haunted Forests of WWII Germany
- By: Anna Maria Manalo
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 4 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
BASED ON TRUE EVENTS! For Krista Schneider and her sister, Mila, growing up in the village of Bleichenbach in central Germany was a happy and joyful existence. But that happiness ends abruptly when the harsh realities of life under the Nazi regime is visited upon them. Her family has been hiding a critical secret from Krista, that when exposed, sets off a chain reaction of events that leads to families being detained, separated, and some murdered. Krista believes her entire family has been killed when she's taken to live with a woman who works for the Gestapo. It’s when she finds out that...
-
-
A-1 voice distracting so bad.
- By Gypsycrone on 01-17-25
-
Saving Rebecca
- A WW2 historical novel about a mother’s devotion
- By: Alex Amit
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In the shadow of the Nazi regime, one woman fights to shield her daughter from the talons of evil. Paris, 1941. Sarah, a Jewish woman, finds herself trapped in the city with her five-year-old daughter, Rebecca, as World War II rages on. Desperate to escape the tightening grip of Nazi oppression, they attempt to flee to neutral Spain. However, their hopes are shattered as they are captured by the French police and sent to the Drancy internment camp, located north of Paris, where French Jews are being ruthlessly rounded up by the Nazi authorities. Within the confines of the camp, surrounded ...
-
-
Trying to save the author’s child
- By Julie Johnson on 05-19-25
By: Alex Amit
-
Beyond the Wire
- By: James D. Shipman
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
October 1944: In the long, narrow undressing rooms in Auschwitz-Birkenau, prisoner Jakub Bak toils under the scrutiny of SS guards. Like other members of the Sonderkommando, Jakub was selected on arrival for an unthinkable job: sorting through the clothes of the dead and moving their bodies from the gas chambers to the crematoriums. Jakub clings to the promise he made to his murdered father - to live, at any cost - and to the moments he is able to spend in the company of Anna, imprisoned in the women's camp.
-
-
Excellent Book! Love this story!!
- By Julie Johnson on 04-27-25
By: James D. Shipman
-
Save My Children
- An Astonishing Tale of Survival and Its Unlikely Hero
- By: Leon Kleiner, Edwin Stepp
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
An eleven-year-old boy and his siblings fight for survival after the evil of the Nazi regime descends upon Poland. Time after time, they miraculously escape certain death as the murderous fascists attempt to make their hometown of Tluste Judenrein. Their luck seems to have run out when the Germans order to liquidate their work camp. Unexpected help comes from Timush, a man known for his terrible deeds against the Jews.
-
-
Not to be missed.
- By Claire on 03-14-25
By: Leon Kleiner, and others
-
The Factory Girls of Lark Lane
- Lark Lane, Book 1
- By: Pam Howes
- Narrated by: Georgia Maguire
- Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
1940, Liverpool: Alice Turner and her best friend, Millie Markham, work for the war effort at Rootes munitions factory, making shell caps and Halifax bombers. Alice’s sweetheart, Terry, is home from the front for a brief period of leave. But the honeymoon is soon over. Terry must go back to the dangers of Nazi-occupied France, and the ever-present air raid sirens quickly bring Alice back down to earth.
-
-
Light story about Britain during WWII
- By Juliana on 05-14-25
By: Pam Howes
-
On Hitler's Mountain
- Overcoming the Legacy of a Nazi Childhood
- By: Irmgard A. Hunt
- Narrated by: Christa Lewis
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Growing up in the beautiful mountains of Berchtesgaden - just steps from Adolf Hitler's alpine retreat - Irmgard Hunt had a seemingly happy, simple childhood. In her powerful, illuminating, and sometimes frightening memoir, Hunt recounts a youth lived under an evil but persuasive leader. As she grew older, the harsh reality of war - and a few brave adults who opposed the Nazi regime - aroused in her skepticism of National Socialist ideology and the Nazi propaganda she was taught to believe in.
-
-
A rare and very much appreciated perspective.
- By tabounds on 12-28-17
By: Irmgard A. Hunt
-
The Way Through The Woods
- A Child’s Escape Through the Haunted Forests of WWII Germany
- By: Anna Maria Manalo
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 4 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
BASED ON TRUE EVENTS! For Krista Schneider and her sister, Mila, growing up in the village of Bleichenbach in central Germany was a happy and joyful existence. But that happiness ends abruptly when the harsh realities of life under the Nazi regime is visited upon them. Her family has been hiding a critical secret from Krista, that when exposed, sets off a chain reaction of events that leads to families being detained, separated, and some murdered. Krista believes her entire family has been killed when she's taken to live with a woman who works for the Gestapo. It’s when she finds out that...
-
-
A-1 voice distracting so bad.
- By Gypsycrone on 01-17-25
-
The Promise
- A WWII Story
- By: James J. Caterino
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Thirteen-year-old Anna escapes the horrors of Nazi occupied Warsaw and joins the underground. Under the guidance of a resistance fighter known as the Captain, she learns to survive, to cope with devastating loss, and to fight back. Every day is a challenge, and every mission is a battle against impossible odds. Then one night two allied planes fall from the sky, and everything changes in this action-packed, epic tale of despair, heartbreak, hope, and the triumph of the human spirit. “The Promise: A World War II Story” is a riveting, decades-spanning, sweeping story, and an emotionally ...
-
-
Horrific virtual voice narration…
- By Angela R Stormer on 10-17-24
-
The Children's Dream
- Auschwitz Twins, Book 1
- By: Roberta Kagan
- Narrated by: Shaina Summerville
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
When Naomi's daughter, Perle, starts to have nightmares about smokestacks and creepy doctors, Naomi is struck with terror—the terror of a mother who fears her daughter is in mortal danger. Naomi believes dreams are glimpses into the future. She, too, has had dreams of foreign soldiers with a strange flag invading her tiny village. She knows in her heart that evil is brewing.
-
-
The whole book
- By Meredythe on 01-16-25
By: Roberta Kagan
-
Miracle Across the Sound
- A WWII Historical Novel of Bravery, Love, & True Freedom
- By: Christine Egbert
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE Inspired by the history of the Danes and their Jewish neighbors who worked together to defy the Reich, Miracle Across the Sound is a story of bravery, love, and true freedom. It is September 1943, and Jews are still free in German-occupied Denmark. But that is about to change. Jewish college student Fleming Lund and his Lutheran former fiancée, Liesel Prestur, have not spoken since they ended their engagement. When Leisel witnesses the Gestapo hauling her Jewish neighbors from their home in the middle of the night, she sneaks off to warn the Lunds. ...
-
-
I cannot stand the lack of empathy in the reading when it is not read my a human. I couldn’t stand listening to it any longer
- By Carol Kraft on 10-16-24
By: Christine Egbert
-
My Mother's War
- A Holocaust Survivor's Tribute to an Extraordinary Woman
- By: Michael Fryd
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
My Mother's War is a gripping memoir about one woman's unflinching courage and cunning in the face of horrific evil. This compelling true story follows author and Holocaust survivor Michael Fryd's larger-than-life mother who outsmarted the Nazis and saved her family. Michael Fryd was only three years old when Nazi Germany invaded Poland, triggering World War II and one of humanity’s darkest chapters. Forced to leave their home and everything they knew, Fryd's mother went to near impossible lengths to keep her family safe from Hitler’s clutches, including crafting clever lies, dealing in...
-
-
Spunky woman!
- By Cindy on 05-09-25
By: Michael Fryd
-
The Hands of War
- A Tale of Endurance and Hope, From a Survivor of the Holocaust
- By: Marione Ingram
- Narrated by: Teresa DeBerry
- Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
An inspiring account from one of history’s darkest moments. Marione Ingram grew up in Hamburg, Germany, in the late 1930s and early 1940s. She was German. She was Jewish. She was a survivor. This is her story. As a young girl, Marione was aware that people of the Jewish faith were regarded as outsiders, the supposed root of Germany’s many problems. She grew up in an apartment building where neighbors were more than happy to report Jews to the Gestapo.
-
-
Powerful story from an incredible woman
- By Dave on 05-06-24
By: Marione Ingram
-
I Escaped from Auschwitz
- The Shocking True Story of the World War II Hero Who Escaped the Nazis and Helped Save Over 200,000 Jews
- By: Rudolf Vrba, Alan Bestic, Sir Martin Gilbert - foreword, and others
- Narrated by: Steven Jay Cohen
- Length: 17 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
April 7, 1944 - This date marks the successful escape of two Slovak prisoners from one of the most heavily-guarded and notorious concentration camps of Nazi Germany. The escapees, Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler, fled over 100 miles to be the first to give the graphic and detailed descriptions of the atrocities of Auschwitz. Originally published in the early 1960s, I Escaped from Auschwitz is the striking autobiography of none other than Rudolf Vrba himself. Vrba details his life leading up to, during, and after his escape from his 21-month internment in Auschwitz.
-
-
Best story from the Holocaust I’ve ever read!
- By Chuck812 on 01-10-21
By: Rudolf Vrba, and others
Courage Character Happiness
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.