The Life That Jack Built

by M. Hirsh Goldberg

The Life That Jack Built tells the dramatic, uplifting story of Jack Pechter, who as a 10-year-old Polish Jew is caught up in World War II and with his family spends four years on the run throughout Eastern Europe to elude the Nazis. Their escape and living conditions are harrowing, including time in Siberia, later being sheltered by a Muslim family in Uzbekistan, and living in a DP camp. Jack and his parents and sisters eventually immigrate to the United States, where they build new lives. Jack grows up, graduates from college, serves in the U.S. army, marries, raises a family and goes into real estate, where over the years he creates a highly successful real estate business developing and managing shopping centers and apartment complexes in Maryland and other states. He also becomes a major philanthropist to Jewish, Israeli, and non-Jewish causes. In the book, he pays special tribute to the foresight and advice of his father, Max, and to the courage and charitableness of his mother, Sarah. Together, his parents saved the family and instilled values in the children. Just days after the war broke out, Max forecast the peril Polish Jewry faced and loaded the family and a few possessions into a horse-drawn cart and headed to Russia and other countries. During their years of moving from place to place, Sarah consoled the children by saying that "tomorrow will be better." And once Jack completed his first real estate deal in America, she told him, "Now, it's time to give back," thereby launching him on a lifetime of philanthropy. Extensive pictures included.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0692264795
• ISBN13: 9780692264799
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Cherished Legacy Publishing
• Length: 118 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.3" x 6.0"