Ebook {Epub PDF} The Girl from the Train by Irma Joubert

 · 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 bltadwin.ru: Nelson, Thomas, Inc.  · Over Shabbat, I read a book that even brought me to tears — “The Girl from the Train” by Irma Joubert. This international bestseller tells the story of a young Jewish girl who escapes the. 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().

"The Girl From the Train is an eloquent, moving testament to love and its power to illuminate our authentic selves." —Sherry Jones, author of The Sharp Hook of Love. 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. It touched on, but did not dwell on the deeper issues of such a catastrophe. Instead Irma Joubert paints a beautiful love story about two people caught up in this deplorable situation. The young girl Gretz lived and survived through more than any one should ever have to face in their whole lifetime. 'The Girl From The Train' Book Review Irma Joubert delivers an eye-opening story about love, identity and the formation of eternal bonds. By Joanie Dweck Janu, am Edit.

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. 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 changing in such radical ways. I just finished the novel The Girl from the Train by Irma Joubert. It is in Southern Poland and Gretl Schmidt (six years old) is on a train with her Grandmother, Mother, and sister, Elza (fourteen) bound for a concentration camp. Elza and Gretl are told to jump from the train to save themselves.