When They Came for the Children
By Sarah Fischer Pointer
Length7h 24m
About this audiobook
It's September 1939. When twenty-four-year-old nurse Anna Weiss accepts a transfer to the Brandenburg-Görden State Hospital, she expects to care for children with disabilities. Instead, she finds frightened patients hidden away from their families, denied proper food and medical care, and disappearing one by one behind a locked staff door.
As Anna uncovers the horrifying truth, she quietly begins to resist. She smuggles food to starving children, alters medical records to buy them time, and joins a small network determined to save as many lives as possible. Every act of compassion carries unimaginable risk, and every child she cannot save weighs heavily on her conscience.
Inspired by the lesser-known history of Aktion T4, the Nazi program that murdered disabled children and adults before the Holocaust reached its deadliest phase, When They Came for the Children is a gripping historical novel about courage, conscience, and the ordinary people who chose to resist extraordinary evil.
Audiobook details
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GenreHistorical Fiction
Length7 hrs 24 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 29, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Title Page
15Chapter 10: The Family That Didn't Care
2Dedication
16Chapter 11: Escape
3Historical Note and Selected Sources
17Chapter 12: Sarah Wagner
4Author's Note
18Chapter 13: Double Jeopardy
5Prologue
19Chapter 14: The Trio
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6Chapter 1: Arrival
20Chapter 15: Aktion T4
7Chapter 2: Settling In
21Chapter 16: Trouble
8Chapter 3: Starvation
22Chapter 17: The Aftermath of Failure
9Chapter 4: Beyond the Staff Door
23Chapter 18: One Last Rescue
10Chapter 5: An Aryan Christmas
24Chapter 19: Reassignment
11Chapter 6: Hans Meyer
25Chapter 20: Accountability
12Chapter 7: Altering Records
26Chapter 21: Life Goes On
13Chapter 8: Vocational Training
27Epilogue
14Chapter 9: Contagion
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