A rebel in Auschwitz : the true story of the resistance hero who fought the Nazis from inside the camp / Jack Fairweather.

Nā:

Fairweather, Jack [author.]

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TextKaiwhakaputa: New York : Scholastic Focus, an imprint of Scholastic Inc., 2021Copyright date: ©2021Edition: First editionWhakaahuatanga: x, 337 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 22 cmContent type:

text
still image
cartographic image

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781338686937

Tētahi atu taitaia:

True story of the resistance hero who fought the Nazis from inside the camp

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DDC classification:

940.53/1853862092 B 23

LOC classification:

D805.5.A96 F348 2021

Summary: 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 cruelest 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 realized 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…

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Momo tuemi	Tauwāhi onāianei	Kohinga	Tau karanga	Tūnga	Rā oti	Waeherepae	Ngā puringa tuemi
Nonfiction	Hāwera LibraryPlus Nonfiction	Nonfiction	940.53 (Tirotirohia te whatanga(Opens below))	Wātea		i2221145
Young adult nonfiction	Stratford YA	Young adult nonfiction	940.5318 FAI (Tirotirohia te whatanga(Opens below))	Wātea		A00904380

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 cruelest 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 realized 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…

For ages from 13 to 17 years.

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