![]() ![]() Separated by continents, politics, religion, language, and years, Jakób and Gretl will likely never see each other again. ![]() 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. ![]() For three years, the young man and little girl form a bond over the secrets they must hide from his Catholic family.īut she can't stay with him forever. When Jakób discovers her, guilt and fatherly compassion prompt him to take her home. Though spared from the concentration camp, the orphaned German Jew finds herself lost in a country hostile to her people. They mean to destroy a German troop transport, but Gretl's unscheduled train reaches the bomb first. Jakób Kowalski is planting a bomb on the tracks.Īs World War II draws to a close, Jakób fights with the Polish resistance against the crushing forces of Germany and Russia. Six-year-old Gretl Schmidt is on a train bound for Auschwitz. ![]()
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