Jacob's Courage by Charles S. Weinblatt (2007, Paperback)

If the unspeakable horror that was the Holocaust can be encapsulated in single
moments, perhaps they would be similar to the terrible scenes in Weinblatt’s fictional story of teenage Jacob Silverman and his family — seeing lives snuffed out in the execution pit as bulldozers push dirt over the still-breathing, in the concentration camp showers as Zyklon-B engulfs screaming women and children, in the Auschwitz medical laboratory as internal organs are removed from the living without anesthesia. The author maintains a driving,
relentless pace as Jacob and his beloved Rachael try to escape the madness of Nazi Germany while maintaining their humanity; in the end, the visionary protagonist (Jacob sees his future in a series of prophetic dreams) comes to
echo his Biblical counterpart who fled danger in his own country and saw a lifechanging vision in his dreams.

— Cynthia Nowak,
The University of Toledo
Alumni Magazine, Fall, 2007