TY - BOOK AU - Fairweather, Jack, TI - A rebel in Auschwitz SN - 9780702312311 U1 - 940.5318092 23 PY - 2021///. CY - London : PB - Scholastic, KW - Pilecki, Witold, KW - Auschwitz (Concentration camp) KW - Juvenile literature KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Underground movements KW - Poland KW - Fiction KW - Underground movements, War KW - Juvenile fiction N1 - 12+ N2 - "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 realized he would have to risk his men, his life, and his family to warn the West before all was lost"--Back cover ER -