David Dambitsch - Die Stimmen der Geretteten - World War II 80th Anniversary

80 years ago, on September 1, 1939, the Nazi German forces invaded Poland, changing the course of history as the world plunged into a global war. The attack was the beginning of a nearly six-year world conflict that left more than 70 million people dead - including the extermination of six million Jews and centuries of Jewish life in Europe - before Germany and Japan surrendered in 1945.

“The time is 4:00 PM. The sound of artillery fire has been going on nonstop for twenty hours… The noise of machine guns and the thunder of the planes overhead have been reverberating in the air and increase the terror. My ears and head ache. You can’t hear what’s being said. Just boom! Boom! Boom!… A block of houses in the city center is on fire. Suddenly there is a terrible noise, then moans and screams—houses collapse in the old city and we run to save those buried alive under the rubble. Suddenly the sky darkened—a cloud of smoke descended over the city.”

In September 1939, Mira Zabludowski wrote this entry as she found herself caught in the eye of the storm while visiting her parents. In her 56-page-long diary, she records her impressions of the first months of the German occupation of Warsaw. Mira luckily managed to escape Poland and made her way back home to Eretz Israel; her father died in July 1940 in Warsaw while her mother was murdered after being deported along with other family members to Treblinka.

The audiobook "Die Stimmen der Geretteten" is a compilation of reports by survivors of the Shoah, like Primo Levi, Arno Lustiger, Grete Weil, Simon Wiesenthal and Imre Kertesz

David Dambitsch - Die Stimmen der Geretteten

(192 kbps, german language, small front cover incuded)