Holocaust Survivor Author:Mike Jacobs A penetrating memoir by the founder of the Dallas Holocaust Memorial Center, who has spoken since 1950 to an estimated 500,000 people about the Holocaust. Mike Jacobs was born in the small Polish town of Konin, where the Jewish community dated from 1397. When Poland was invaded by the Nazis in 1939, Jacobs spent five years confined in ghettos an... more »d concentration camps, but he kept hope alive in his heart. He shared that hope by helping others whenever he couldand by undermining Nazi efforts, no matter the risk to himself. A story told without hatred or bitterness, Holocaust Survivor teaches us that when we recognize that freedom comes from within, we are never completely powerless. The Jacobs make their home in Dallas.« less