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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. Jakób Kowalski is planting a bomb on the tracks. As World War II draws to a close, Jakób fights with the
Polish resistance against the crushing forces of Germany and
Russia. They mean to destroy a German troop transport, but
Gretl’s 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 Jakób
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 can’t stay with him forever. Jakób sends Gretl to
South Africa, where German war orphans are promised bright
futures with adoptive Protestant families—so long as Gretl’s
Jewish roots, Catholic education, and connections to
communist Poland are never discovered. Separated by continents, politics, religion, language, and
years, Jakób 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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