Dr. Josef’s Little Beauty Audiobook

A Holocaust story as fascinating and compelling as it is terrifying and puzzlinga book about aging and war crimes pain and pride

In the middle of summer omnipresent heat radiates as a group of elderly people are remembering their youth The story focuses on two sisters Leokadia and Helena who live together in a retirement home not far from Warsaw These are not ordinary stories they are sharing because both of them were imprisoned as children in Auschwitz during World War II At the center is Helena who at the age of twelve was saved from extermination by the notorious doctor Josef Mengele the reallife Nazi officer and physician who was known as the angel of death for the experiments he conducted on prisoners including twins and siblings

This is a story both provocative and disturbing about the fear that lingers in victims Was the sisters relationship with the executioner a desperate attempt to save their lives or perhaps they harbor a hideous pride and sense of superiority over other prisoners Rudzkas extraordinary writing turns unsettling questions about memory and survival into art