Jacob's Rescue

by Malka Drucker and Michael Halperin

Book Overview

Based on a true story, and from the co-author of Rescuers, the courageous and vividly told story of one boy and the courageous family who risks everything to save him.

Once Jacob Gutgeld lived with his family in a beautiful house in Warsaw, Poland. He went to school and played hide-and-seek in the woods with his friends. But everything changed the day the Nazi soldiers invaded in 1939. Suddenly it wasn't safe to be Jewish anymore...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0440409659
• ISBN13: 9780440409656
• Release Date: July 1994
• Publisher: Yearling Books
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.2" x 7.7"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

Jacobs Rescue

the true story about the holocaust was wonderful! the authors kept you interested through each chapter! since jacob is a jewish boy forced into hiding with the roslans who are polish, he is given the name genyek. many exciting events take place in the story inculding two deaths in alex's family. I love the book which i did a big report on . I found it made me understand the holocaust better than i did before!

Jacob's Rescue

Jacob Gutgeld a 8 year old Jewish boy that lived in Warsaw, Poland. In 1939, Nazis soldiers invaded Warsaw, Poland. Being Jewish wasn't safe anymore beacasue the soldiers were out searching and killing Jews. Meeting a Christan man name Alex Roslan one day. Alex helped out Jacob by being his new uncle. Since he is moving in with the Roslan he has to leave the rest of his family behind. He might never see them agian. But now he has to live with danger everywhere he goes. To find out if he can managed to stay alive with the Roslan's read this excellent book about Jacob's Rescue, a Holocaust Story. I would recomend this book to kids of all ages. This is a really good book, it has loads of action in it, and has a very good storyline. I liked this book because you learn lots about the past and how life was in 1939. But I hope that you enjoy this wonderful book.

Jacob's Rescue

Jacob's Rescue was about a rich Jewish boy who gets put in the Ghetto with his Aunt Hannah and Grandma. Then Alex (a Polish man with a wife and two two kids) decides to hide him. Jacob has two brothers David and Shalom. There are many problems but in the end it all turns out well. Read the story to find out the true story of Jacob's rescue. It is a very good book about World War II and the Holocaust which lasted from about 1939 to 1945. I liked the way it was always exiting and kept me on the edge of my seat.

A great book for fifth grade.

As a fifth grade teacher I read Jacob's Rescue for the first time with my class after our reading teacher spoke so highly of it. She and I will continue to include it each year. It is a great book to spark an interest in fifth graders about the Holocaust. The fact that it is based on true events manages to hit home that this awful and tragic event ACTUALLY happened.

The Holocaust was terrifying for young Jacob

We are the most excellent and often noisy class of 5T from Holland Elementary School in Holland, MA. We read Jacob's Rescue for literature study in our unit on the Holocaust. The book we just read is about when a Polish family tries to keep alive three Jewish brothers during the Nazi occupation in World War II. The story is about a boy who was saved, along with his brother, from the Warsaw ghetto. They lived with a family, but they still felt scared of the Nazis. The book tells about the terrifying encounters with the Nazis. There are several reasons why we liked this book. It tells in great detail what happened to regular people during the Nazi occupation. We liked the part about when the family fled Warsaw because we were glad that they were able to escape to safety. We liked Jacob's Rescue because it was an emotional and realistic book. It made some of us cry when people died. It made some of us shout for joy when people got away from the Nazi invasion. Some of us had a few criticisms of the book. Because the book was so realistic there was a lot of violence and death. Some of us did not like that. People were blown up, people lay in puddles of blood, and a dead dog was dragged away to be someone's dinner. Some of us also felt the pace of the book was too rapid; the book lacked detail because it moved too quickly. At one point they skipped two years in Jacob's life. We got a little confused about characters' ages at different points in the book.