Jacob's Courage
A Holocaust Love Story
by Charles S Weinblatt
Jacob's Courage chronicles the dazzling beauty of passionate love and enduring bravery in a lurid world where the innocent are brutally murdered. In 1939, seventeen-year-old Austrians Jacob Silverman and Rachael Goldberg were bright, talented, dazzlingly happy and deeply in love. But, because they were Jews, their families lost everything. The Nazis took away their jobs, their houses and apartments, their possessions and their money. They lost contact with loved ones. Finally, they lost their liberty. Jacob and Rachael "grew up" during the Holocaust. As teenagers, they survived the beatings, rapes, and murderous acts of the Nazis, enjoyed the physical and spiritual pleasure of being in love and were able to become husband and wife in the Theresienstadt camp. They escaped, joined the partisans and fought the Nazi enemy, before Jacob and his father were imprisoned in Auschwitz.
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Holocaust, genocide, Nazi, WWII, war, faith, courage, romance, love, passion, concentration camp, escape, freedom, persecution, prejudice, bigotry, Charles Weinblatt, Jacob's Courage, Mazo PublishersPeople
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Jacob's Courage: A Holocaust Love Story
March 15, 2007, MAZO PUBLISHERS
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"It was already colder than normal, this dreary, dark winter in the Austrian Alps. Thick, gray snow clouds rushed through the dark forest, on their way to the frosty cliffs above. It was as though nature was preparing itself for the onslaught of terror soon to follow – freezing itself from the approaching evil. Here in the cold, dark Austrian mountains near Salzburg, the world slept peacefully. Yet, horror was on the horizon."
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This is the story of the Silverman family; an ordinary Austrian Jewish family who experienced profound tragedy during the Holocaust. The novel was compiled after extensive Holocaust research. Members of my family perished in the Holocaust and my mother experienced violent attacks upon her family in a pogrom against their Russian Jewish village. Portions of the novel are based upon my mother’s memoirs.
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Jacob’s Courage chronicles the dazzling beauty of passionate love and enduring bravery in a lurid world where the innocent are brutally murdered. This is a tender coming of age story of two young adults living in Salzburg at the time when the Nazi war machine enters Austria. The historical novel presents scenes and situations of Jews in ghettos and concentration camps, with particular attention to Theresienstadt and Auschwitz. Follow lovers Jacob and Rachael from their comfortable Salzburg homes to a decrepit ghetto, from there to a prison camp where they became man and wife. Revel in their excitement as they escape and join the local partisans, fighting their Nazi tormentors. Finally ride the crowded, fetid train to the terror of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Stung by the death of loved-ones, enslaved and starved, they have nothing to count on but faith, love and courage. From desperate despair, to unforgettable moments of chaste beauty, Jacob’s Courage examines a constellation of emotions during a time of incomprehensible brutality.
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