28 days : a novel of resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto / David Safier ; translated by Helen MacCormac.

Title:

ISBN:

9781250237149

Personal Author:

Safier, David, 1966-

Edition:

First U.S. edition.

Publication Information:

New York : Feiwel and Friends, 2020.

Physical Description:

404 pages ; 22 cm

General Note:

Originally published as 28 Tage lange : Hamburg : Rowohlt Verlag, 2014 in German under the title, 28 Tage lange.

Summary:

In Warsaw, Poland, in 1942, Mira faces impossible decisions after learning that the Warsaw ghetto is to be "liquidated," but a group of young people are planning an uprising against their Nazi captors.

Warsaw, 1942. Mira smuggles food into the Warsaw ghetto to keep herself and her family alive. When she learns the entire ghetto is to be "liquidated" she joins a group of young people who are planning an uprising against the Nazi forces. For twenty-eight days, as the resistance fighters hold out, Mira experiences betrayal, suffering... and even moments of happiness. -- adapted from jacket

Program Information:

Accelerated Reader UG 5.0 15 512028

Geographic Term:

Warsaw (Poland) -- History -- Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1943 -- Fiction.

Poland -- History -- Occupation, 1939-1945 -- Fiction

Subject Term:

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland -- Fiction

Jews--Poland -- Fiction

World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Fiction

World War, 1939-1945--Poland -- Fiction.

Genre:

Historical fiction