Mengeles Apprentice, Roberta Kagan
Mengeles Apprentice, Roberta Kagan
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Mengele's Apprentice

Author: Roberta Kagan

Narrator: Shaina Summerville

Unabridged: 9 hr 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 11/29/2022


Synopsis

As the Nazi shadow of death falls across Europe, one man's wickedness looms out of the darkness.

Mengele, the Angel of Death.

When the Aizenberg family is forced into the crowded Warsaw ghetto, they must share a small apartment with a secular Jewish family. This living arrangement will be a test for young Shoshana Aizenberg as she enters adulthood.

Meanwhile, fast-rising doctor Ernst saves a man's life on the Russian front. For his heroism, Ernst is rewarded with the role of Dr. Mengele's apprentice at Auschwitz. It is an opportunity beyond his wildest dreams . . . the cost is the stuff of his worst nightmares.

Gisele's beauty shines in a life fraught with hardship and despair. She desperately hopes to find her father, but first, she'll have to survive the Nazis who have infested Paris.

About Roberta Kagan

Roberta Kagan is an American novelist who primarily writes historical fiction, most notably set during World War II and the Holocaust, although she has featured other time periods and settings. Her fans have a particular fondness and appreciation for her World War II period books, such as All My Love Detrick and A Flicker of Light, which are inspirational stories of ordinary people caught up in extraordinary circumstances.

Her father was of Romany descent, and her mother was Jewish. Her childhood was quite unusual, as the family was wealthy until she was thirteen years old, when her father suffered a reversal of fortune in his business. The family went from being privileged to being poor in a matter of months, and Roberta learned some valuable lessons about true friendship and what really matters in life that have carried over into her books and short stories. The Romany teachings she received from her father have also had a significant impact on her writing, and several of her books feature Romany characters.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jennifer on June 10, 2022

This novel divides into three different books/stories. You start with Ernst Neider, a nervous and shy Aryan German and college/university student, who wants to become a doctor. He finds it easier to socialize with his new roommate, Ancel, who is a Jewish medical student and becomes friends with him a......more

Goodreads review by Toni on May 11, 2022

Book #2, in the Auschwitz Twins series This story is divided in 3 important sections called books Book #1, chapters 1 to 20 Berlin, Germany 1930’s Ernst Neider is a shy and unpopular individual his dream was to be a doctor. Coming from a poor family his parents gave him everything to make this come true......more

Goodreads review by Edwin on June 05, 2022

ik heb dit boek als ARC{{Advanced Reading Copy}} ontvangen van BookFunnel, in ruil voor een review.  Dit boek bestaat uit 3 delen, elk met een ander verhaal, die uiteindelijk bij elkaar komen.  Boek 1 is Mengele's Apprantice speelt zich in Berlijn in de jaren '30. Ernst is een verlegen en onpopulaire......more

Goodreads review by Teresa on June 07, 2022

I love reading historical fiction books set during WWII. This one was a little different. There were three separate story lines that meshed together. The view into Mengele’s depravity and his reasons for conducting the experiments he did on twins, the gypsies, those with abnormalities (one blue eye......more

Goodreads review by Alyson on August 17, 2023

Audiobook - really good! On to book 3!......more