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The Girl from the Train

[Paperback]

by Irma Joubert

Jumping from a train for Auschwitz,Gretl is parted from family.Refuge is found but will she ever know hope or love again?

    • Author

      Irma Joubert

    • Book Format

      Paperback / softback

    • Publisher

      World Publishing Co

    • Published

      October 2015

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      The Girl from the Train

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      Six-year-old Gretl Schmidt is on a train bound for Auschwitz. Jak?b Kowalski is planting a bomb on the tracks.

      As World War II draws to a close, Jak?b 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 Jak?b 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. Jak?b 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, Jak?b 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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      • Author

        Irma Joubert

      • Book Format

        Paperback / softback

      • Publisher

        World Publishing Co

      • Published

        October 2015

      • Weight

        335g

      • Page Count

        384

      • Dimensions

        139 x 211 x 30 mm

      • ISBN

        9780529102379

      • ISBN-10

        0529102374

      • Eden Code

        4316115

      More Information

      • Author/Creator: Irma Joubert

      • ISBN: 9780529102379

      • Publisher: World Publishing Co

      • Release Date: October 2015

      • Weight: 335g

      • Dimensions: 139 x 211 x 30 mm

      • Eden Code: 4316115


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