Comments on: The Apple by Penelope Holt

By: Anna

Anna — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 11:05:07 +0000

We posted your review on War Through the Generations.

By: donald beckman

donald beckman — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 11:54:22 +0000

kubiek, you keep on suggesting there is something wrong if rosenblat converted? there is nothing wrong if he did. why are you so special? seems like you are defending a lair and some writer who tried to whitewash his hoax.

By: Peter Kubicek

Peter Kubicek — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:12:53 +0000

In answer to Tom Spitz and Lorin Schneider, the insane rumor that Herman Rosenblat converted to Christianity was started by an unstable, psychotic person who has made this comment on several sites, under a variety of aliases. His only future is to wind up in a straight-jacket. How can anyone take him seriously?

By: lorin schneider

lorin schneider — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 20:10:29 +0000

it has been reported on other blogs that herman rosenblat converted to christianity. i wonder if this is something that ms. holt helped initiate?

By: tom spitz

tom spitz — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 23:20:00 +0000

did herman rosenblat recently change his religion converting to christianity?

By: god bless

god bless — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 23:38:57 +0000

pictures of our hero herman rozenblat.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aju4dybTZsc

By: Charles

Charles — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:31:51 +0000

Sometimes authors use a novel or screenplay to support political or social beliefs; or to cry out for morality and ethical principles. This is no more clearly evident than with Holocaust books and films. Whenever we stand up to those who deny or minimize the Holocaust, or to those who support genocide we send a critical message to the world.

We live in an age of vulnerability. Holocaust deniers ply their mendacious poison everywhere, especially with young people on the Internet. We know from captured German war records that millions of innocent Jews (and others) were systematically exterminated by Nazi Germany – most in gas chambers. Holocaust books and films help to tell the true story of the Shoah, combating anti-Semitic historical revision. And, they protect future generations from making the same mistakes.

I wrote “Jacob’s Courage” to promote Holocaust education. This coming of age love story presents accurate scenes and situations of Jews in ghettos and concentration camps, with particular attention to Theresienstadt and Auschwitz. It examines a constellation of emotions during a time of incomprehensible brutality. A world that continues to allow genocide requires such ethical reminders and remediation.

Many authors feel compelled to use their talent to promote moral causes. Holocaust books and movies carry that message globally, in an age when the world needs to learn that genocide is unacceptable. Such authors attempt to show the world that religious, racial, ethnic and gender persecution is wrong; and that tolerance is our progeny’s only hope.

Jacob’s Courage has been reviewed extensively. Called, “gut wrenching and heart rending,” this love story takes the reader deep into ground zero of the Holocaust, encompassing the reader with constantly churning emotions. Despite the abject terror of this book, it also reveals the triumphant spirit of humankind and demonstrates how ordinary people can perform extraordinary acts of courage when the lives of loved ones are on the line.

Charles Weinblatt
Author, “Jacob’s Courage”
http://jacobscourage.wordpress.com/.

By: Wanda

Wanda — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:16:58 +0000

Well, that goes to show you how much time I invest in T.V. , next to none apparently. I remember seeing an interview with the Rosenblats on the late night news but hadn’t an inkling about the controversy. Didn’t something weird go on with ‘A Million Little Pieces’ too? Sounds like Oprah is having some bad book-luck!

By: rhapsodyinbooks

rhapsodyinbooks — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:12:41 +0000

Interesting review! Kind of bizarre that she did a novel out of the story!