Böcker av Christine Egbert

A stunning sequel to the WWII historical fiction bestseller Miracle Across the Sound, A Promise Broken A Promise Kept is inspired by real-life heroes of the Alyiah Beit and the Exodus 1947.World War II ended eighteen long months ago and still, a quarter of a million Jewish Holocaust survivors are being warehoused in Displaced Persons Camps throughout Europe and Cyprus. Disregarding the 1917 Balfour Declaration, the British mandate government is restricting Jewish immigration to 10,000 Jews per year.Flemming Lund, disgusted by the miserly quotas, is horrified to learn that every Jew seeking asylum in Denmark between 1935 to 1945 was deported to Berlin, and that thousands of Danish dignitaries were card-carrying Nazis.The newspaper Flem writes for offers him an opportunity as their foreign correspondent in Palestine. He accepts and is later procured by the Hagenah to document their mission: smuggle over 4000 Jews into Palestine.Aboard a decrepit U.S. steamship renamed Exodus 1947, the journey that follows will make history."Behold, the days are coming," declares Adonai, "when I will return My people Israel and Judah from exile...I will bring them back to the land I gave to their fathers, and they will possess it." Jeremiah 30:3

SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREInspired by the history of the Danes and their Jewish neighbors who worked together to defy the Reich, Miracle Across the Sound is a story of bravery, love, and true freedom.It is September 1943, and Jews are still free in German-occupied Denmark. But that is about to change.Jewish college student Fleming Lund and his Lutheran former fiancée, Liesel Prestur, have not spoken since they ended their engagement. When Leisel witnesses the Gestapo hauling her Jewish neighbors from their home in the middle of the night, she sneaks off to warn the Lunds. Unbeknownst to her, Flem recently came to realize that Yeshua, the one she calls Jesus, is the Messiah and he sees her appearance on his doorstep as an answer to prayer.Amidst Denmark's crumbling puppet government, Flem and Liesel renew their plans to marry. Sadly, that dream is postponed once again when they learn of Hitler's plot to round up Denmark's Jews in a midnight raid on Rosh Hashanah.Woven into this fictional romance is the inspiring but little-known history of how in 1943, over the month of October, ordinary Danes smuggled nearly all their Jewish countrymen to freedom in Sweden.