A rebel in Auschwitz : the true story of the Resistance hero who fought the Nazis from inside the camp
Fairweather, Jack2021
Books, Manuscripts
Occupied Warsaw, Summer 1940: Witold Pilecki, a Polish underground operative, accepted a mission to uncover the fate of thousands interned at a new concentration camp, report on Nazi crimes, raise a secret army and stage an uprising. The name of the camp - Auschwitz. Over the next two and half years, and under the cruellest of conditions, Pilecki's underground sabotaged facilities, assassinated Nazi officers and gathered evidence of terrifying abuse and mass murder. But as he pieced together the horrifying Nazi plans to exterminate Europe's Jews, Pilecki realised he would have to risk his men, his life and his family to warn the West before all was lost. To do so meant attempting the impossible - but first he would have to escape from Auschwitz itself.
London : Scholastic, 2021.London : Scholastic, 2021.
337 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 20 cm
Interest age level: 12+.Adolescent.
9780702312311 (pbk)
940.53
English
Pilecki, Witold, 1901-1948 -- Juvenile literatureAuschwitz (Concentration camp) -- Juvenile literatureWorld War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Poland -- Juvenile literatureHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland -- Juvenile literatureTeenage Non-FictionHistory and WarfareFrancePolandInterest age: from c 12 yearsInterest age: from c 14 yearsFor emergent readers (adult)
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