PRLog (Press Release) -
May 06, 2009 -
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 were bright, talented, dazzlingly happy and deeply in love. But, because they were Jews, their families lost everything. The Nazis took away their jobs, their houses and apartments, their possessions and their money. They lost contact with loved ones. Finally, they lost their liberty. Jacob and Rachael "grew up" during the Holocaust. As teenagers, they survived the beatings, rapes, and murderous acts of the Nazis, enjoyed the physical and spiritual pleasure of being in love and were able to become husband and wife in the Theresienstadt camp. They escaped, joined the partisans and fought the Nazi enemy, before Jacob and his father were imprisoned in Auschwitz. In the end, only their love and their faith that God had a plan for them kept them alive.
"Jacob's Courage" has been reviewed by Jewish Book World, The Association of Jewish Libraries, The University of Toledo, The Toledo Jewish News, The Toledo Holocaust Center, The Sylvania Historical Society, The Toledo Free Press, The Sylvania Advantage and numerous individuals. Copies of "Jacob's Courage" are at the United States Holocaust Memorial Center and at Yad Vashem in Israel.
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http://www.prlog.org/10231284/1Charles S. Weinblatt is the author of Jacob's Courage and Job Seeking Skills for Students. Weinblatt created and led the University of Toledo Division of Organization Development from its inception in 1995 until his retirement in 2004.
