Jacob's Courage
by Charles S. Weinblatt
"Jacob's Courage" is a beautiful love story set against the backdrop of
the Holocaust.
"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 are bright, talented,
and deeply in love. Because they are Jews, their families lose
everything; their jobs, possessions and money, contact with loved ones,
and finally their liberty at the hands of the Nazis. Jacob and Rachael
"grow up" during the Holocaust.
As teenagers, they survive the
beatings, rapes, and murderous acts of the Nazis, enjoy the physical
and spiritual pleasure of being in love and are able to become husband
and wife in the Theresienstadt Ghetto, before being imprisoned in
Auschwitz. Eventually Jacob and Rachael become Partisans to fight the
Nazi enemy.
While "Jacob's Courage" is a novel,
the author, Charles Weinblatt, has based portions of the story on his
mother's experience. Clara Volk Weinblatt was a childhood victim of
pogroms in her Russian Jewish village.
Much of Weinblatt's maternal
extended family perished in the Holocaust. Great grandparents,
great-aunts and uncles and many cousins disappeared into the void of
Nazi annihilation.
This book is dedicated to the
6,000,000 Jews who perished in the Holocaust. They have been lost, but
will never be forgotten.
"Jacob's Courage" is Holocaust
literature for adult readers.
524 pages, soft cover
$22.95
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