Takeaways A Podcast About Learning From The Wisdom Of Others

This is a story of a miracle in the midst of tragedy, a story that must be told and must be heard. Lucy Jacobs turns 95 years young this summer, but by the glory of God she is here to tell the story of what happened to her along with six million Jews in the concentration camps of Nazi Germany. The takeaway from this powerful episode is as simple as this: to hear her first-hand account and bear the truth. Born in Czechoslovakia in 1928. Lucy was one of seven children, and is the only one left. Her father was a veterinarian, a taxpayer, and helped whomever he could. Yet she,  her parents and siblings, along with millions of other Jews, were torn from their homes by radio announcement and moved to locked ghettos within their own city. Soon they were placed on a cattle train to Auschwitz. Betrayal, suffering, and survival Lucy describes her arrival at the concentration camp; what follows is an account of unfathomable darkness. At merely 14 years of age, she was torn from her mother who was sent to die in the g