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    3,096 Days in Captivity: The True Story of My Abduction, Eight Years of Enslavement, and Escape
    3,096 Days in Captivity: The True Story of My Abduction, Eight Years of Enslavement, and Escape
    3,096 Days in Captivity: The True Story of My Abduction, Eight Years of Enslavement, and Escape
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    3,096 Days in Captivity: The True Story of My Abduction, Eight Years of Enslavement, and Escape

    Written by Natascha Kampusch

    Narrated by Jennifer Scapetis-Tycer

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    About this audiobook

    On March 2nd, 1998, ten-year-old Natascha Kampusch was kidnapped, and found herself locked in a house that would be her home for the next eight years. She was starved, beaten, treated as a slave, and forced to work for her deranged captor. But she never forgot who she was, and she never gave up hope of returning to the world. This is her story.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateJun 15, 2016
    ISBN9781515977889
    3,096 Days in Captivity: The True Story of My Abduction, Eight Years of Enslavement, and Escape

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    • 5/5
      Amazing story of survival from a very young age. The torment she went through was horrendous. But she never stopped believing in herself. And that’s how she survived. Very good read
    • 5/5
      Such a sad story. Was well written. What a nightmare for a little girl, but she is a survivor.
    • 4/5
      Reader has some noticeable but subtle mistakes that threw me off.

      The book is preachy in random parts and the first chapter goes on for a little too long on the backstory.
    • 5/5
      Inhaltsangabe: von amazon.de: Natascha Kampusch erlitt das schrecklichste Schicksal, das einem Kind zustoßen kann: Am 2. März 1998 wurde sie im Alter von zehn Jahren auf dem Schulweg entführt. Ihr Peiniger, der Nachrichtentechniker Wolfgang Priklopil, hielt sie in einem Kellerverlies gefangen – 3096 Tage lang. Am 23. August 2006 gelang ihr aus eigener Kraft die Flucht. Priklopil nahm sich noch am selben Tag das Leben. Jetzt spricht Natascha Kampusch zum ersten Mal offen über die Entführung, die Zeit der Gefangenschaft, ihre Beziehung zum Täter und darüber, wie es ihr gelang, der Hölle zu entkommen.Mein Fazit:Man stelle sich vor, ein zehnjähriges Mädchen fühlt sich nicht wirklich geliebt und beachtet von den Eltern. Außerdem hat sie damals im Fernsehen von den vielen Fällen erfahren, wo Mädchen entführt, mißbraucht und oft auch getötet wurden. Sie ist einmal in ihrem Leben mutig und möchte allein zur Schule gehen und dann passiert es – sie wird entführt.Natascha Kampusch ist genau das geschehen. Sie beschreibt in dem Buch „3096 Tage“ ihre Odyssee, die ihre Gefangenschaft bei Wolfgang Priklopil bedeuten. Eine Zeit, wo sie vom kleinen Mädchen zur Frau heranreift. Eine Zeit, wo sie sämtliche Gefühlslagen erfährt. Obwohl sie sich von ihrer Mutter nicht wirklich geliebt fühlt und der Vater sie manchmal als Vorzeige-Objekt behandelt hat, sehnt sie sich natürlich nach ihrer Familie. Nach der vertrauten Umgebung und der Freiheit.Anfangs behandelt Wolfgang Priklopil sie noch „anständig“, wenn man es unter diesen Umständen noch so nennen kann. Aber es ändert sich, als Natascha in die Pupertät kommt. Und er fordert von ihr auch mehr ab. Sie muss putzen, mit ihm Wohnungen renovieren und schwere Arbeiten erledigen. Andere Demütigungen muss sie über sich ergehen lassen. Es lässt vermuten, das er sie auch mißbraucht hat, dazu hat Natascha sich aus Gründen der Privatsphäre jedoch ausgeschwiegen. Er hat Psychoterror betrieben und sie für Nichtigkeiten heftig bestraft. Ein Leben in der Hölle …Beim Lesen dieser Lektüre musste ich immer wieder Pause machen. Es war oft schwer zu ertragen, was sie erlebt hat. Sie hat ihren Täter auch als Opfer seiner selbst gesehen. Sie hat es geschafft, sich nicht komplett dominieren zu lassen und eigene Wege gefunden, damit ihre Seele nicht zu sehr schaden nahm. Etwas, was man doch sehr bewundern kann.Ein besonderes Zeitzeugniss, das einen nach Ende der Lektüre nicht so schnell loslässt. Starke Nerven muss man jedenfalls haben.Anmerkung: Ich habe es als eBook gelesen.Veröffentlicht am 07.12.14!
    • 4/5
      Natascha Kampusch was 10 years old in 1998 when, walking to school alone for the first time, she was grabbed and thrown into a white delivery van. She was kept prisoner, mostly in a “dungeon” underground in her kidnapper’s house for 8 years before she escaped. This is the first kidnapping story that I remember being so blown up in the media. (Sadly, there have been a number of them since). For those who are squeamish about sex/rape, she leaves this out; it doesn’t actually sound like there was a lot of that, anyway. There is plenty of physical abuse, though. It is a translation, so there is the occasional awkward phrase or sentence, but I was certainly interested in her story. I think it gave a really good insight into how dependent she was on her kidnapper, especially since she was with him during those formative years between the ages of 10 and 18, and why she might have mixed feelings towards him. I feel so badly that she was not always treated well after she escaped due to those mixed feelings towards her former captor. Something interesting about this book that I’ve not seen before (though I don’t have a Smartphone, so couldn’t take advantage of them) were the QR codes for more information at the end of each chapter. The book was published in 2010, so it’s possible the codes may not work anymore. However, as with many true crime stories I read, I had to look up more information online to find out how she’s been doing since the book was published.
    • 4/5
      Synopsis: This book tells the true story of Natascha's kidnapping when she was only 8 years old on her way to school, from her point of view. The beginning tells of her trying to figure out the purpose of her abduction and why, out of everyone, she was kidnapped. Living in a dungeon as a child made her made her lonely and at the start she looked forward to the kidnapper's presence, often begging him to play games with her to keep her company. Left by herself for days on end, any connection to the outside world such as via radio, and anything to keep her mind pre-occupied such as the books and TV programmes the kidnapper brought her brought her a little bit of solace.As the years went by and Natascha's hope of being rescued diminished, the kidnapper became more vicious and repeatedly abused her, often leaving her to the brink of starvation. Any time Natascha was let out of her dungeon to do household chores around the home, she was closely monitored. Towards the end, Priklopil, considering a lifelong future with Natascha, ended up taking her outside of the house a handful of times to run errands with him. The amount of times she comes close to freedom and her first encounter with people other than Priklopil leaves you hanging on. My Opinion: I can only imagine the pain and suffering that Natascha must have endured, having 8 years of her life taken away from her. The book doesn't do her story justice. At times links were missing, and as the reader you often felt the emotionless state she must have felt being trapped away. I have since done some reading online to see pictures of her dungeon and read police reports. This is not the kind of book that has a fairy-tale ending, this is a diary - the bare telling - of Natascha's kidnapping.
    • 5/5
      An incredible memoir of survival. Mrs.Kampusch details her years spent in captivity and explains how she finally managed to break free. She has a lot of insight into the psychological aspects of her experience and she never portraits herself as a victim. Nevertheless it is heartbreaking to imagine a young child locked in a basement by some crazy man. This is a story that will stay with me for a while.
    • 4/5
      In march of 1998 the ten year old Natascha disappears on her way to school in a suburb to Vienna. The search is intense for a couple of months, after which the girl is presumed dead. But Natascha is alive, kept prisoner in a five square meter room in a sound isolated basement behind two thick concrete doors and a hidden corridor. Her abductor is Wolfgang Priklopil, a young man suffering from severe paranoid schizophrenia. Eight years later Natascha manages to escape, upon which Priklopil promptly kills himself. Her fate becomes a ruthless media craze, and she is more or less forced under ground again. This book is her own account of the years in imprisonment.This is a quick, gruesome and deeply fascinating read. Natascha describes the years in Priklopil’s basement without sentiment, and with an impressive amount of analysis. She describes in horrid detail how her “role” changed over time from pampered child to work slave to “wife”, the violence, the terror, the psychological torture – food, sleep and light deprivation, altering of reality, manipulation of memory. But also more complex aspects: how Natascha managed to keep some feeling of superiority towards her prisoner over all the years and how high the threshold to escape actually was.Perhaps most interesting is her description of the evolving, complicated relationship to Priklopil. She sharply denounces the idea of Stockholm Syndrome, meaning that such a label takes away her right to interpret her experience. She talks about how Priklopil was the only person she met for eight years, and that despite the violence and terror, there was also a mutuality there that was necessary for her survival. And there were “good times” too. In the end, after her release, this unwillingness to talk about absolute evil, the victim refusing to play the role of victim, is what the media has a hard time handling, and she faces some rather appalling aggressiveness as a result.A strong young woman with a unique story – and a book that won’t make you feel like a dirty scavenger for reading it. Recommended.
    • 4/5
      I chose this book from a pile at the monthly Beijing Bookswap because there was little else that grabbed me and I was short of time. Not at all my usual type of book, I suspected it would be another of the growing genre of misery memoirs and I was quite prepared to abandon reading if it didn't grab me. However, I found that right from the beginning of the bookNatascha's strong personality was evident, and she told her story clearly with a remarkably unemotional style. I was struck by how, only a few years after her ordeal ended she was able to look back so dispassionately, and analyse both her childhood self and her abductor with such mature clarity. Although I realise she had help writing this book I thought her real voice came through clearly, and she is an impressive young woman - not a victim, a survivor. This book will certainly add to the understanding of how human beings cope with solitary confinement, sensory deprivation and psychological trauma. I wish her well in the rest of her life.
    • 4/5
      Liked this book a lot! Even an idea that it is all a true story makes my stomach cramp... Liked the intensity of it and the dark atmosphere of being in a way like a companion to the girls struggle for freedom, both in her mind and in her sad reality. The strength that is radiating from the pages of her personal account, fascinates me.
    • 4/5
      A fascinating psychological study. Mentally tough girl as well.