The Ghetto
Adam Frosh
Type: Beta project
Genre: Historical fiction
Word count: 120,000
Warnings: Graphic violence
1939 Warsaw. Jewish film producer Jakub and Christian actress Natalia’s love is tested by family differences and Natalia’s childhood admirer, Marek—a ruthless black marketeer. When the Germans invade, Jakub is confined to the ghetto. Natalia joins the resistance to reach him. As the deportations begin, aided by their friends and allies, they fight in a battle for their very lives.
1939, Warsaw. Jakub, a Jewish film producer, and Natalia, a Christian actress, are deeply in love, but their family’s differences and Marek, a man obsessed with Natalia since childhood, stand in their way.
When the Nazis invade, they seal Jakub behind the ghetto‘s walls. Driven by a love she was forced to abandon, Natalia joins the resistance in a desperate fight to get back to him, but she is pursued by Marek, now a vengeful black marketeer.
Inside the ghetto, a mysterious SS Officer takes a chilling interest in Jakub’s piano music, while an antisemitic priest finds his values tested by the immense suffering he witnesses. Meanwhile, a famous Polish actor risks his life forging documents to save Jewish lives.
As the ghetto transforms into an urban battlefield, Natalia must navigate a world of smugglers and spies while Jakub finds his true purpose leading a desperate rebellion. In the chaos of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, they will soon discover that the one thing worse than the spectre of death is a broken heart.
I am a consultant surgeon in Hertfordshire and have Polish Jewish ancestry. I have been haunted by the story of the Warsaw Ghetto—the Jews who dared fight back, and the Poles who risked everything to help them. I play lead guitar in a band and have a fascination for cooking.
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