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Precious Jewels eBook Dale Martellino

What a captivating read! In a very intriguing way, the author managed to connect characters separated by 2 continents and 34 years, into a historically informative story about the devastation and impact of the Nazi regime in Prague during World War II. I so enjoyed the creative style that was used to develop the characters, and how serendipity played a part in their lives to unfold a very heartfelt story of innocence, kindness, love, suffrage, and connection. Although it was a very sobering reflection of the perils of the Jewish people under Hitler's reign, the author writes with a heartwarming manner that enables the reader to grow to appreciate the characters, their individual lives and what they endured. I highly recommend this book!


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Precious Jewels eBook Dale Martellino Reviews

This is a very interesting book about a young girl who feels she can make a difference in the midst of a German regime which forces all Jews to live their lives imprisoned in a ghetto neighborhood in Praguewearing gold stars to acknowledge them as Jews. She is a most naive young woman who soon is trapped in a situation which she always hopes to escape and save at least one other person from this doomed existence. The story turns to horror and a fight for survival and death only for her child and others to come together at a most interesting ending. This is a sad story but gave me the urge to keep reading to see what would happen to its characters. The entangled outcome and connection of these characters amazed me and the ability of the author to foresee this ending was unbelievable. Definitely a great read!!
With a beginning and ending story that in itself adds a heartwarming story, Martellino quickly enters into the flashback tale on the life of a young Jewish Jewel who is now living in a monastery... She has taken the name of Katarina, in honor of Katarina Orbhan, a young girl living in Prague when the occupation was just beginning. It was November, 1941, as they watched the soldiers march into town and then walked on their streets and walks, proclaiming their superiority to all.

Katarina was from a well-to-do Czech family who would not have been too affected by the invasion if Katarina had stayed home, but Katarina had her own opinions about what was happening. Her father had already begun to warn to stay away from the German Soldiers, as well as the Jews since they would be the victims of what was to come. However, Katarina's concern for her town, their lives, as well as all of its citizens, led to her great sympathy for how the Jews were already being relocated. Their possessions had already been hidden in their holy buildings, hoping to reclaim them sometime in the future...Now every Jewish child, man and woman were forced to sew a star on their clothes and wear it at all times. They were crowded into a desolated part of town with little space, less food, and poor health conditions. Fortunately, there had been one doctor and his nurse wife, who had also been moved there and were helping all that they could. It is their daughter, Naomi, who was first smuggled out of Prague, a precious jewel, born in the ghetto and meant to survive and bring some joy to those forced to stay.

And it was the young Katarina who became totally involved in what was happening...

Katarina, with her mother's support, because her father didn't want to agree, was able to get a temporary job with Social Services...There's is a strange backstory on her boss there, who hires Katarina with a personal goal in mind...connecting with her former doctor and bringing back news of he and his wife's pregnancy.

First, it was clear that Katarina had no business taking the job; she was clearly not only not qualified, she was required to go into the ghetto with no ability to communicate and no working experience. She was required to do what might be called a census of those presently living there...

What she did have was a shrewd mind and a unbeatable desire to help the Jewish people. But the first thing that happened was that she had to pass the guard who controlled entry. She was smart enough to handle the mechanics and to get inside...

But she wasn't smart enough to not become involved with the young German soldier, telling herself she was doing this in case she needed some future support in handling something...

Nor the young boy who offered to guide her with her survey. Her boss had warned her that she was not there to make connections with the people...merely to gather data.

But Katarina was overwhelmed and quickly knew she would need his help...All he wanted was to have her help him escape...

Her boss had told her to find Dr. Bonn immediately, but that didn't happen until much later and when Katarina got there to talk to him, his wife had just gone into labor!

Soon Katarina was caught up into personal lives...that of the doctor, whose wife had died in childbirth and that of her boss...
and that of the German soldier who had assigned the job, and had planned it purely for the enjoyment he would take from the two women in the office...

It is hard to say that such a story can prove to be an exciting thriller, but it was...With the main character being a young Christian girl, who goes against her parents' knowledge to do much more than could ever have been expected, it adds a dimension beyond the tale coming from those who were imprisoned. But given that many soldiers were also criminals, it was soon apparent that Katarina would be swept into the death and destruction that the German army had brought with them...

And Katarina brought forth the second precious jewel, from an unknown father who could have been any of those that had taken her... But her child escaped with financial payoffs and help from the prisoners... This child's mother dead also--this time from a bullet...

The words of a favorite hymn has always stayed with me...Lest I forget Thy agony...Lest I forget Thy love for me... I find I cannot read a book about what was done to Jesus' Race, the Jewish people, without remembering Lest we forget the Holocaust... It was a Christian girl who, along with many others, saved as many Jews as possible during that time... This book is a wonderful remembrance of that time as Christians fought against the Germans, even though mostly unsuccessfully, to save those wearing that star...

Highly recommended...

GABixlerReviews
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This writer, Martellino, makes NO Sense in this confusing book. The book is poorly written and almost impossible to "follow" the tale! I read Many Books every week! This is the Worst one I have tried to read, in years!
I thoroughly enjoyed it.
A fast read but craftfully written
Nice story and touching and teaches you things that you will remember for life
Precious Jewels was fast paced and an interesting great read. The characters came alive and I could not put it down.
Though the story held some interest, the structure of the actual written word became a distraction. The sentences were drawn out and awkward, the structure cumbersome. I really had to make myself finish the book.
What a captivating read! In a very intriguing way, the author managed to connect characters separated by 2 continents and 34 years, into a historically informative story about the devastation and impact of the Nazi regime in Prague during World War II. I so enjoyed the creative style that was used to develop the characters, and how serendipity played a part in their lives to unfold a very heartfelt story of innocence, kindness, love, suffrage, and connection. Although it was a very sobering reflection of the perils of the Jewish people under Hitler's reign, the author writes with a heartwarming manner that enables the reader to grow to appreciate the characters, their individual lives and what they endured. I highly recommend this book!