LEADER 00000pam a2200421 i 4500 003 DLC 005 20211201102221.0 008 201221s2021 nyua d b 001 0beng 010 2020056412 020 9781338686937|q(hardback) 040 NJQ/DLC|beng|erda|cDLC|dDLC|dIMmBT|dUtOrBLW 042 pcc 043 e-pl--- 092 940.5318538|bFAI 100 1 Fairweather, Jack,|eauthor. 245 12 A rebel in Auschwitz :|bthe true story of the resistance hero who fought the Nazis from inside the camp /|cJack Fairweather. 246 30 True story of the resistance hero who fought the Nazis from inside the camp 250 First edition. 264 1 New York :|bScholastic Focus,|c2021. 300 x, 337 pages :|billustrations ;|c22 cm 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 500 "True stories in focus"--Dust jacket. 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-321) and index. 520 "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.."--|cProvided by publisher. 521 1 Ages 12-18.|bScholastic Focus. 521 2 Grades 7-9.|bScholastic Focus. 600 10 Pilecki, Witold,|d1901-1948. 610 10 Poland.|bPolskie Siły Zbrojne.|bArmia Krajowa|xOfficers |vBiography. 610 20 Auschwitz (Concentration camp) 650 0 Internment camp inmates|zPoland|vBiography. 650 0 World War, 1939-1945|xUnderground movements|zPoland. 650 0 World War, 1939-1945|xAtrocities. 650 0 Nazi concentration camp inmates|zPoland|vBiography.
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