Get 3 audiobooks free with a 30-Day Free Trial Sign Up Free

Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered

Author:
Ruth Kluger
Read by:
Natasha Soudek
Read Read Own Own

Unabridged Audiobook

Listen Free Now
  • Listen free with a 30-day free trial
  • Choose 2 bonus VIP books
  • Enjoy 10,000 always free books
Ratings
Book
2
Narrator
1
Release Date
August 24, 2021
Duration
10 hours 41 minutes
Summary
A controversial bestseller likened to Primo Levi and Elie Wiesel, Still Alive is a harrowing and fiercely bittersweet Holocaust memoir of survival: 'a book of breathtaking honesty and extraordinary insight' (Los Angeles Times).



Swept up as a child in the events of Nazi-era Europe, Ruth Kluger saw her family's comfortable Vienna existence systematically undermined and destroyed. By age eleven, she had been deported, along with her mother, to Theresienstadt, the first in a series of concentration camps which would become the setting for her precarious childhood.



Interwoven with blunt, unsparing observations of childhood and nuanced reflections of an adult who has spent a lifetime thinking about the Holocaust, Still Alive rejects all easy assumptions about history, both political and personal. Whether describing the abuse she met at her own mother's hand, the life-saving generosity of a woman SS aide in Auschwitz, the foibles and prejudices of Allied liberators, or the cold shoulder offered by her relatives when she and her mother arrived as refugees in New York, Kluger sees and names an unexpected reality which has little to do with conventional wisdom or morality tales.
Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered

Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered

Author: Ruth Kluger
Read by: Natasha Soudek
Listen Free Now Get any book plus
2 bonus VIP books
1 book added to cart
Subtotal
$19.99
View Cart