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"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... read more
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How would you feel if, at age seventeen, the government removed you from school, evicted you from your home, looted your bank account and took all of your family's possessions? How would you feel if ruthless police prevented your parents from working and then deported you and your loved ones... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)
Cast of Characters/Important People
- Jacob's Courage - Protagonists: Compiled after extensive Holocaust research, this is the story of an Austrian Jewish family's experience during World War II. The protagonists are seventeen year-old Jacob Silverman and his lover, Rachael Goldman. Jacob’s childhood is magnificent, in every way. He has a very close and affectionate relationship with his father, a warm and loving physician. In 1939, Jacob is deeply in love with Rachael Goldberg, the daughter of Moshe’s colleague. She has swept him completely off his feet. Jacob prepares to study medicine, as his father had done before him. Yet, he cannot bear to leave Rachael, the love of his life. With Rachael, life is beautiful and promising, the future enticing.
First Sentence
The dreary, dark winter of 1939-1940 began early in the Austrian Alps.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 ~ The Darkness Arrives .................................................................. 11
Chapter 2 ~ Jacob’s Nightmare .......................................................................15
Chapter 3 ~ The Nightmare Begins .................................................................23
Chapter 4 ~ Undying Love ..............................................................................40
Chapter 5 ~ Hanna’s Dark History .................................................................43
Chapter 6 ~ The Synagogue Tragedy ..............................................................53
Chapter 7 ~ The Hospital ................................................................................64
Chapter 8 ~ The Final Solution .......................................................................69
Chapter 9 ~ Forced To Leave Home ...............................................................73
Chapter 10 ~ Life In The Ghetto .....................................................................85
Chapter 11 ~ The Winter Of Discontent ..........................................................88
Chapter 12 ~ Deception, The Heart Of The Enemy ........................................90
Chapter 13 ~ The Train Ride ...........................................................................94
Chapter 14 ~ Witness To A Massacre ..............................................................99
Chapter 15 ~ Theresienstadt, A New Ghetto ................................................ 103
Chapter 16 ~ Avoiding Deportation .............................................................. 110
Chapter 17 ~ A Red Cross Visit ..................................................................... 111
Chapter 18 ~ A Forbidden Wedding ............................................................. 121
Chapter 19 ~ Ariel’s Deportation ................................................................. 125
Chapter 20 ~ Rachael’s Terrible Ordeal ...................................................... 131
Chapter 21 ~ The Commandant’s Rage........................................................ 139
Chapter 22 ~ Rachael’s Dilemma ................................................................. 143
Chapter 23 ~ A Plan For Escape ................................................................. 145
Chapter 24 ~ The Commandant’s End ......................................................... 151
Chapter 25 ~ A Plan For Freedom ............................................................... 156
Chapter 26 ~ The Forest’s Protection .......................................................... 160
Chapter 27 ~ Life With The Partisans .......................................................... 170
Chapter 28 ~ The First Mission ................................................................... 185
Chapter 29 ~ Recaptured ............................................................................. 203
Chapter 30 ~ Reunited.................................................................................. 205
Chapter 31 ~ The Partisans Without Jacob ................................................. 212
Chapter 32 ~ Interrogation .......................................................................... 213
Chapter 33 ~ Partisan Politics ..................................................................... 215
Chapter 34 ~ One Last Wish Before I Die .................................................... 220
Chapter 35 ~ The Gestapo ........................................................................... 223
Chapter 36 ~ From Death’s Doorway To Redemption ................................. 237
Chapter 37 ~ Rachael’s Delivery Dilemma .................................................. 245
Chapter 38 ~ The Checkpoint....................................................................... 258
Chapter 39 ~ A Train To Poland .................................................................. 272
Chapter 40 ~ Auschwitz ................................................................................ 279
Chapter 41 ~ Life In Auschwitz .................................................................... 299
Chapter 42 ~ Birth And Death ..................................................................... 316
Chapter 43 ~ Surviving Auschwitz ............................................................... 332
Chapter 44 ~ Josef Mengele ......................................................................... 344
Chapter 45 ~ The Winds Of Change ............................................................. 358
Chapter 46 ~ Rachael And The Partisans .................................................... 363
Chapter 47 ~ The Music Of Auschwitz ......................................................... 378
Chapter 48 ~ The Violin ............................................................................... 383
Chapter 49 ~ The Rise Of Jacob’s Courage ................................................. 392
Chapter 50 ~ Jacob’s Plan ........................................................................... 395
Chapter 51 ~ Escape From Auschwitz ......................................................... 401
Chapter 52 ~ Reunion .................................................................................. 403
Chapter 53 ~ Fighting Back ......................................................................... 418
Chapter 54 ~ The Frantic Pace Of Mass Killing ......................................... 433
Chapter 55 ~ Rachael’s Escape .................................................................... 440
Chapter 56 ~ Sonderkommando ................................................................... 446
Chapter 57 ~ Leaving Auschwitz .................................................................. 458
Chapter 58 ~ Rachael’s Struggle To Survive ................................................ 469
Chapter 59 ~ The Death March ................................................................... 470
Chapter 60 ~ The Battle ............................................................................... 478
Chapter 61 ~ Night Of The Cannons ............................................................ 480
Chapter 62 ~ The Sniper .............................................................................. 491
Chapter 63 ~ The Battle’s Conclusion .......................................................... 494
Chapter 64 ~ The Last Day .......................................................................... 497
Chapter 65 ~ Jacob’s End ............................................................................ 501
Chapter 66 ~ Guilt ........................................................................................ 505
Chapter 67 ~ Resettlement ........................................................................... 510
Authors & Contributors
- Charles S Weinblatt (Author)
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