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THE GIRL FROM THE TRAIN
By: Irma Joubert
Thomas Nelson
November 2015
On Sale: November 3, 2015
Featuring: Gretl Schmidt; Jakob Kowalski
ISBN: 0529102374
EAN: 9780529102379
Kindle: B00PWOGZAI
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Six-year-old Gretl Schmidt is on a train bound for Auschwitz. JakΓ³b Kowalski is planting a bomb on the tracks. As World War II draws to a close, JakΓ³b fights with the Polish resistance against the crushing forces of Germany and Russia. They mean to destroy a German troop transport, but Gretlβs unscheduled train reaches the bomb first. Gretl is the only survivor. Though spared from the concentration camp, the orphaned German Jew finds herself lost in a country hostile to her people. When JakΓ³b discovers her, guilt and fatherly compassion prompt him to take her home. For three years, the young man and little girl form a bond over the secrets they must hide from his Catholic family. But she canβt stay with him forever. JakΓ³b sends Gretl to South Africa, where German war orphans are promised bright futures with adoptive Protestant familiesβso long as Gretlβs Jewish roots, Catholic education, and connections to communist Poland are never discovered. Separated by continents, politics, religion, language, and years, JakΓ³b and Gretl will likely never see each other again. But the events they have both survived and their belief that the human spirit can triumph over the ravages of war have formed a bond of love that no circumstances can overcome.
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