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The girl from the train
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- ISBN: 9780718078201 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book)
- ISBN: 0718078209 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book)
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1 online resource (1 audio file (11hr., 57 min.)) : digital. - Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: [United States] : Thomas Nelson, Inc. : Made available through hoopla, 2015.
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| Restrictions on Access Note: | Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Sarah Zimmerman. |
| Summary, etc.: | 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. They intend 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 Jakób discovers her, guilt and fatherly compassion prompt him to take her in. 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. Jakób 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, Jakób 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. |
| System Details Note: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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| Subject: | Poland 20th century Fiction South Africa 20th century Fiction Holocaust survivors Fiction Germans South Africa Fiction Poland Fiction South Africa Fiction |
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