Mala's Cat: A Memoir of Survival in World War II Free Audiobook Download by Mala Kacenberg

All the details of this memoir tell a compelling story of survival and courage. Mala Kacenberg was born in Poland in 1922, but her family fled before she could get to know them. They made it to Warsaw, but then they were confined to 'the ghetto.' When that was taken away too, they found sanctuary on the Aryan side of town. She went through horrors in concentration camps, but managed escape and live out her life in America.

"I saw the first of these strange men myself, way back in the early spring of 1942. That's when I was just a wee kitten, about six or seven weeks old. I was born in the middle of winter in a country village near the Czech border. The snow had been gone for only a few days when this man suddenly appeared. He stepped into my mother's garden and started to dig. Then he pulled up some weeds, threw them on top of the fresh mound of soil, and stomped his boots on it."

Mala’s Memoir is the story of her life from the age of 14 until she became an adult, and it begins with her family’s decision to flee Europe for Shanghai. Her parents were taken away in a roundup of Jews and Mala lived through two years in a Japanese prison camp before being rescued by American troops. But what is most interesting about this book is that it was written after Mala had reached old age, but much like Anne Frank, she didn't get to pen the ending.

Mala's Cat: A Memoir of Survival in World War II is narrated by author 'Kristin Atherton' and tells the story of Mala's fight to survive in Nazi Germany during World War II. The memoir describes how Mala and her family were essentially imprisoned and forced into Judaism following the invasion of Poland in 1939, but they continued to live a normal life until their situation deteriorated. Mala watches as Jewish neighbors are taken away; she learns that her grandmother is dying, and members of her family start to disappear. Her father is forced out of his job as a doctor and must work in a munitions factory for pennies per day.

As a young girl, Mala Kacenberg grew up in the Polish town of Zamosc. When the Nazis occupied Poland on September 1, 1939, she and her family moved to Warsaw. For three years, she and her family lived in deep fear that their relatives would be taken away from them. In 1944, Nazi soldiers came for her mother, who was sent to Auschwitz concentration camp with her father. Although she successfully escaped from the concentration camp herself, she never found out what happened to her mother or father.

"At the end of this book, I would like you to know that there is always hope even in the worst moments of life," says Mala Kacenberg. "But this hope is not an abstract idea. It's the kind of hope that comes with a plan and the ability to follow it."