Yaakov Bar Nahman

Yaakov Bar Nahman

16 Articles

The Fall of the Ax

Four neo-Nazi thugs jumped the Yeshiva boy from behind, beating him mercilessly. And the police? The captain of the local precinct was the father of the lead thug...

Betrayal

Solomon was sent to Berlin. There he was interred for four days while it was decided whether to execute him or ship him off to a concentration camp.

Blankenase

The Nazis raid the farm in search of the Jewish children, but the latter have already escaped trying to reach the Promised Land…

In the Austrian Army

Moshe Paul’s enlistment procedure was uneventful, except for several smirks and side comments about Jews… but he was in very good physical condition…

The Meeting

Rabbi Freier gives Solomon the dangerous task of arranging the escape of Jewish children from Nazi Germany and bringing them to Palestine…

Revenge

The Jewish youth of Austria make a daring revenge on the Hitler Brownshirt youth who killed a Jewish boy; the respite was ever so short…

Brownshirt Clouds

1932: The Jewish ‘grape vine’ has information that the Brown Shirt’s are already getting military training and will soon be getting firearms as well…

Uncle Layish

Layish, a Serbian Jewish cavalry officer, could fire a rifle while standing on the back of one horse, jump to the back of another galloping horse and still hit a bullseye…

A Narrow Escape

1935: There she was, her delicate little sister cornered by the brutal SS sergeant. Dvorah snuck up behind, kicked the Nazi, grabbed her sister and ran for her life…

The Hidden Sage

1932: Solomon meets a hidden sage who tells him that he must immediately begin “rescuing” Jewish children and sending away from Germany to Palestine…