
The Tattooist of Auschwitz
A Novel
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Narrated by:
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Richard Armitage
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By:
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Heather Morris
About this listen
This beautiful, illuminating tale of hope and courage is based on interviews that were conducted with Holocaust survivor and Auschwitz-Birkenau tattooist Ludwig (Lale) Sokolov - an unforgettable love story in the midst of atrocity.
In April 1942, Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew, is forcibly transported to the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau. When his captors discover he speaks several languages, he is put to work as a Tätowierer (the German word for "tattooist"), tasked with permanently marking his fellow prisoners.
Imprisoned for more than two and a half years, Lale witnesses horrific atrocities and barbarism - but also incredible acts of bravery and compassion. Risking his own life, he uses his privileged position to exchange jewels and money from murdered Jews for food to keep his fellow prisoners alive.
One day in July 1942, Lale, prisoner 32407, comforts a trembling young woman waiting in line to have the number 34902 tattooed onto her arm. Her name is Gita, and in that first encounter, Lale vows to somehow survive the camp and marry her.
A vivid, harrowing, and ultimately hopeful recreation of Lale Sokolov's experiences as the man who tattooed the arms of thousands of prisoners with what would become one of the most potent symbols of the Holocaust, The Tattooist of Auschwitz is also a testament to the endurance of love and humanity under the darkest possible conditions.
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Critic reviews
"Richard Armitage is a superb narrator whose performance here is among his best.... Armitage's performance captures every emotion from fear to trepidation to hope and even to love with understated warmth." (AudioFile)
"The audio version of this book is a particularly strong marriage of narrator and material. The British actor Richard Armitage uses an impressive variety of actorly tools as he shifts perspective.... He skillfully conveys the cruel, mocking tone that the SS officers and guards often used with prisoners as a way of reinforcing their power. Even when he isn't portraying a specific character, Armitage keeps the listener engaged and alert by modulating his tone, sometimes within individual sentences. At times it seems as if there are two narrators, so often, and ably, does Armitage vary his delivery.... [The author's] compassion for her characters, combined with Armitage's riveting delivery, makes this an immensely satisfying book to listen to, whatever else you might happen to be doing." (The New York Times Book Review)
"The Tattooist of Auschwitz is an extraordinary document, a story about the extremes of human behavior existing side by side: calculated brutality alongside impulsive and selfless acts of love. I find it hard to imagine anyone who would not be drawn in, confronted and moved. I would recommend it unreservedly to anyone, whether they’d read a hundred Holocaust stories or none." (Graeme Simsion, internationally best-selling author of The Rosie Project)
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Truths I Never Told You
- By: Kelly Rimmer
- Narrated by: Sarah Mollo-Christensen, Piper Goodeve, Jean Ann Douglass
- Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
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From the best-selling author of The Things We Cannot Say, Before I Let You Go, and the upcoming The Warsaw Orphan, comes a poignant post-WWII novel that explores the expectations society places on women set within an engrossing family mystery that may unravel everything once believed to be true.
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Another great story by Kelly Rimmer
- By Lisa N. on 08-15-20
By: Kelly Rimmer
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The Lost Girls of Paris
- By: Pam Jenoff
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Knowelden, Henrietta Meire, Candace Thaxton
- Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
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One morning while passing through Grand Central Terminal on her way to work, Grace Healey finds an abandoned suitcase tucked beneath a bench. Unable to resist her own curiosity, Grace opens the suitcase, where she discovers a dozen photographs - each of a different woman. In a moment of impulse, Grace takes the photographs and quickly leaves the station. Grace soon learns that the suitcase belonged to a woman named Eleanor Trigg, leader of a network of female secret agents who were deployed out of London during the war.
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I don’t understand the good reviews
- By Heather on 03-30-19
By: Pam Jenoff
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Animal Dreams
- A Novel
- By: Barbara Kingsolver
- Narrated by: Barbara Kingsolver
- Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Animal Dreams is a passionate and complex novel about love, forgiveness, and one woman's struggle to find her place in the world. At the end of her rope, Codi Noline returns to her Arizona home to face her ailing father, with whom she has a difficult, distant relationship. There she meets handsome Apache trainman Loyd Peregrina, who tells her, "If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life."
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She reads my heart
- By Sue Spahr Hodges on 08-03-18
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The Huntress
- A Novel
- By: Kate Quinn
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 19 hrs and 4 mins
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Bold and fearless, Nina Markova always dreamed of flying. When the Nazis attack the Soviet Union, she risks everything to join the legendary Night Witches, an all-female night bomber regiment wreaking havoc on the invading Germans. When she is stranded behind enemy lines, Nina becomes the prey of a lethal Nazi murderess known as the Huntress, and only Nina's bravery and cunning will keep her alive.
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EVEN BETTER THAN ALICE NETWORK
- By Nina on 03-02-19
By: Kate Quinn
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Call Your Daughter Home
- By: Deb Spera
- Narrated by: Robin Miles, Adenrele Ojo, Brittany Pressley
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
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It's 1924 in Branchville, South Carolina, and three women have come to a crossroads. Gertrude, a mother of four, must make an unconscionable decision to save her daughters. Retta, a first-generation freed slave, comes to Gertrude's aid by watching her children, despite the gossip it causes in her community. Annie, the matriarch of the influential Coles family, offers Gertrude employment at her sewing circle, while facing problems of her own at home.
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Lovely story/perfect narration
- By christi mccoy on 07-08-19
By: Deb Spera
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Before I Let You Go
- A Novel
- By: Kelly Rimmer
- Narrated by: Vanessa Johansson, Amy Landon
- Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
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The 2:00 a.m. call is the first time Lexie Vidler has heard her sister's voice in years. Annie is a drug addict, a thief, a liar - and in trouble, again. Lexie has always bailed Annie out, given her money, a place to sleep, sent her to every kind of rehab. But this time, she's not just strung out - she's pregnant and in premature labor. If she goes to the hospital, she'll lose custody of her baby - maybe even go to prison. But the alternative is unthinkable.
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To much whining
- By angel on 04-24-18
By: Kelly Rimmer
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Listening Well
- Bringing Stories of Hope to Life
- By: Heather Morris
- Narrated by: Heather Morris, Nicolette McKenzie
- Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
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In Listening Well, Heather will explore her extraordinary talents as a listener—a skill she employed when she first met Lale Sokolov, the tattooist at Auschwitz-Birkenau. It was this ability that led Lale to entrust Heather with his story, which she told in The Tattooist of Auschwitz. Now Heather shares the story behind her inspirational writing journey and the defining experiences of her life, including her profound friendship with Lale, and explores how she learned to really listen to the stories people told her—skills she believes we can all learn.
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lost interest
- By gretchen on 09-05-22
By: Heather Morris
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The Hunting Party
- A Novel
- By: Lucy Foley
- Narrated by: Gary Furlong, Elle Newlands, Morag Sims, and others
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
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During the languid days of the Christmas break, a group of 30-something friends from Oxford meets to welcome in the New Year together, a tradition they began as students 10 years ago. For this vacation, they’ve chosen an idyllic and isolated estate in the Scottish Highlands - the perfect place to get away and unwind by themselves. They arrive on December 30, just before a historic blizzard seals the lodge off from the outside world. Two days later, on New Year’s Day, one of them is dead.
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I bought this for 7 bucks; I wouldn't pay 8
- By Lucy on 12-01-19
By: Lucy Foley
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Summer of '69
- By: Elin Hilderbrand
- Narrated by: Erin Bennett
- Length: 13 hrs and 34 mins
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Welcome to the most tumultuous summer of the 20th century. It's 1969, and for the Levin family, the times they are a-changing. Every year, the children have looked forward to spending the summer at their grandmother's historic home in downtown Nantucket. But like so much else in America, nothing is the same.
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great story
- By Amazon Customer on 07-09-19
By: Elin Hilderbrand
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The Housekeeper
- A Twisted Psychological Thriller
- By: Natalie Barelli
- Narrated by: Susie Berneis
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
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When Claire sees Hannah Wilson at an exclusive Manhattan hair salon, it's like a knife slicing through barely healed scars. It may have been 10 years since Claire last saw Hannah, but she has thought of her every day, and not in a good way. So Claire does what anyone would do in her position - she stalks her. Hannah is now Mrs. Carter, living the charmed life that should have been Claire's. It's the life Claire used to have before Hannah came along and took it all away from her.
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Best Psych Thriller EVER Until the Last Two Hours
- By mercyjam317 on 01-07-20
By: Natalie Barelli
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The Paris Agent
- By: Kelly Rimmer
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Knowelden, Fiona Hardingham, Emma Fenney
- Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
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Twenty-five years after the end of the war, Noah Ainsworth is still preoccupied with those perilous, exhilarating years as a British SOE operative in France. A head injury sustained on his final operation has caused frustrating gaps in his memory—in particular about the agent who saved his life during that mission gone wrong, whose real name he never knew, nor whether she even survived the war.
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Powerfully moving story
- By Jennifer Greenfield on 07-28-23
By: Kelly Rimmer
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Sisters Under the Rising Sun
- A Novel
- By: Heather Morris
- Narrated by: Laura Carmichael
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
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In the midst of World War II, an English musician, Norah Chambers, places her eight-year-old daughter Sally on a ship leaving Singapore, desperate to keep her safe from the Japanese army as they move down through the Pacific. Norah remains to care for her husband and elderly parents, knowing she may never see her child again. Sister Nesta James, a Welsh Australian nurse, has enlisted to tend to Allied troops. But as Singapore falls to the Japanese she joins the terrified cargo of people, including the heartbroken Norah, crammed aboard the Vyner Brooke merchant ship.
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Beautiful story
- By Kindle Customer on 03-11-24
By: Heather Morris
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Inside the Gas Chambers
- Eight Months in the Sonderkommando of Auschwitz
- By: Shlomo Venezia
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
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Slomo Venezia was born into a poor Jewish-Italian community living in Thessaloniki, Greece. At first, the occupying Italians protected his family; but when the Germans invaded, the Venezias were deported to Auschwitz. His mother and sisters disappeared on arrival, and he learned, at first with disbelief, that they had almost certainly been gassed. Given the chance to earn a little extra bread, he agreed to become a 'Sonderkommando', without realizing what this entailed.
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Excellent book
- By Rodney on 03-14-23
By: Shlomo Venezia
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The First Shot
- A Prequel
- By: Liv Constantine
- Narrated by: Suzanne Elise Freeman
- Length: 2 hrs and 35 mins
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In this gripping prequel to the blockbuster best seller and Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick The Last Mrs. Parrish, listeners will discover exactly how Amber Patterson transformed from small-town girl to master manipulator - after all, practice makes perfect.
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I was not disappointed!
- By KKEC Reads on 11-14-20
By: Liv Constantine
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- Vik
- 10-14-18
Brilliantly written and moving!
I really enjoyed Lale's story. This is an amazing of being torn apart from your family, taken to work at the camps, using your skills to survive, and escaping to find your lost love. The narrator did a great job. There are part of his sentences where he switches between a young and old voice for no reason. This makes the story a little 'weird'. Overall, both voices are wonderful. The book ended a little too soon.
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- M. Reader
- 01-15-19
Beautiful story but the narration is bad
This book tells a frightening, heartbreaking, beautiful, important story, but the recording is so weird. It frequently sounds as though two different people are taking turns reading sentences. I’ve never experienced this in an audio book, and I hope I never experience it again because it is unbelievably distracting.
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- Jill G
- 04-28-19
Loved the story, hated the narration
As others have said, the narration and editing on this book is just awful. The voice changes often and mid sentence, which I assume is just bad editing. It is quite distracting.
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- Sara Rathfelder
- 03-10-19
Beautiful
This books is so beautifully written and so wonderfully narrated. I strongly recommend this book!
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- Stephanie F. G.
- 04-10-19
Perhaps the best book I’ll read all year
The writing and narration of this incredible true story are both phenomenal. Stop reading reviews and start reading this book. Every moment is captivating.
Perfect.
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- Sandra
- 12-30-18
Amazing!
A riveting story, that kept me on the edge of my seat, with a great narrator!
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- Charlotte H. Bernini
- 04-27-19
Holocaust survivor
Although I’ve read many novels about the horrors of the holocaust, this is told from the point of view of a man who could be thought of as a collaborator but I believe his very great humanity and will to survive makes him a hero. And the love story embedded in the telling makes reading about the horrors bearable. I strongly recommend this book. The reader is excellent so it is an excellent listen
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- Pamela H.
- 02-10-19
Heart wrenching!
This was a compelling story and a great narration. Don't ever let hate rule again!
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- Jenna Proctor
- 09-25-18
Loved it!
Loved this story! An easy and engaging listen that I continue to think about after finishing. Highly Recommend!
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- JackieD
- 01-29-19
Revealing and heartbreaking
This is an extraordinary account of the life and times in the world of Concentration Camps in the 40s.
I always knew bits and pieces of these times, but to fill in the details has been spellbinding.
A must read of this almost forgotten time in history!
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