![]() ![]() There he meets a Protestant pastor, imprisoned for helping Jews, and Jacob can't understand why the man was willing to risk his life when he could have stayed out of it and stayed safe. As the title indicates, soon enough he gets caught and sent to Auschwitz. ![]() But when the Nazis come for his family, Jacob escapes and begins to fight alongside his uncle.for a time. Jacob isn't as naive as his parents, but he does respect them. His uncle is a member of a Jewish resistance group that knows things will only get worse unless people start fighting to make it better. His parents are passive, hoping that if they just stay the course, eventually it will turn out alright. Jacob Weisz is a seventeen-year-old Jew in Germany in 1938. ![]() But in The Auschwitz Escape he's having a go at historical fiction, so his end-times eschatology doesn't factor in, even as his mad story-telling skills still do. Joel Rosenberg is a fantastic writer, a New York Times best-seller, but his political thrillers are based in large part on premillennial views that I don't share, and that does take away from some of the fun. ![]()
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