The teenaged boy who set the bomb, Jakob Kowalski, takes Gretle to his family, where she will live for the next four years. She has to keep quiet about her Jewish blood; Jakob’s family likes Jews even less than Germans. Based on actual accounts, “The Girl from the /5(). · Jakób Kowalski is a member of the Polish Home Army, tasked with blowing up a Nazi troop train. But a train carrying Jews to a death camp crosses the tracks first, and all aboard are killed except for Gretl and Elza Schmidt, sisters who escape the train just before the www.doorway.ru: Nelson, Thomas, Inc. The Girl From the Train by Irma JoubertWhen 6-year-old Gretl jumps from a train bound for Auschwitz, her mother and grandmother are unable to follow her. She endures a long, desperate journey results. Eventually, she's able to find refuge with Jakob, a Polish freedom fighter. The world is /5(44).
The Girl From the Train is an incredibly beautiful book. In many ways it touched me very similarly to Anthony Doerr's All the Light We Cannot See. It drew me in, made me smile and cheer, made me cry, made me angry. The Girl From the Train by Irma Joubert. When 6-year-old Gretl jumps from a train bound for Auschwitz, her mother and grandmother are unable to follow her. She endures a long, desperate journey results. Eventually, she's able to find refuge with Jakob, a Polish freedom fighter. The world is changing in such radical ways. The Girl From the Train. Irma Joubert. Thomas Nelson, Nov 3, - Fiction - pages. 16 Reviews. Six-year-old Gretl Schmidt is on a train bound for Aushwitz. 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.
Jakób Kowalski is a member of the Polish Home Army, tasked with blowing up a Nazi troop train. But a train carrying Jews to a death camp crosses the tracks first, and all aboard are killed except for Gretl and Elza Schmidt, sisters who escape the train just before the explosion. She's the author of eight novels and a regular fixture on bestseller lists in The Netherlands and in her native South Africa. She is the winner of the ATKV Prize for Romance Novels. International bestselling author Irma Joubert was a history teacher for 35 years before she began writing. Her stories are known for their deep insight into personal relationships and rich historical detail. At just six years old, she is on the run. Jakob Kowalski is a twenty-one year old Polish resistance movement worker against the Communists in WWII. When he sets a bomb on the tracks to stop a German train, he doesn't know another unscheduled train is coming by--one that will deposit a fierce, strong, determined six year old orphan into his life.
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