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Fairweather, Jack,

A rebel in Auschwitz / Jack Fairweather. - London : Scholastic, 2021. - 340 pages ; 20 cm

"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.

12+.

ISBN: 9780702312311 0702312312

Nat. Bib. No.: GBC1C4771 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 020279883 Uk

Subjects--Personal Names:
Pilecki, Witold, 1901-1948.

Subjects--Corporate Names:
Auschwitz (Concentration camp)--Juvenile literature.

Subjects--Chronological Terms:
1939-1945

Subjects--Topical Terms:
World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements --Poland--Fiction.
Underground movements, War--Juvenile fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Poland.

Dewey Class. No.: 940.5318092