A Rebel in Auschwitz

A young readers edition of The Volunteer\r\n - Jack Fairweathers Costa Book of the Year.\r\n \r\n An extraordinary, eye-opening account of the Holocaust.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Occupied Warsaw, Summer 1940: Witold Pilecki,\r\n a Polish underground operative, accepted a mission\r\n to uncover the fate of thousands interned at a new concentration\r\n camp, report on Nazi crimes, raise a secret army and stage an\r\n uprising. The name of the camp - Auschwitz.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Over the next two and half years, and under the cruellest of conditions,\r\n Pileckis underground sabotaged facilities, assassinated\r\n Nazi officers and gathered evidence of terrifying abuse and mass\r\n murder.\r\n\r\n\r\n But as he pieced together the horrifying Nazi plans\r\n to exterminate Europes Jews, Pilecki realized he would have\r\n to risk his men, his life and his family to warn the West before\r\n all was lost. To do so meant attempting the impossible\r\n - but first he would have to escape from\r\n Auschwitz itself...\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n\r\n For children aged 12 and up.\r\nWritten from exclusive access\r\n to previously hidden diaries, family and camp survivor accounts,\r\n and recently declassified files.\r\n\r\n Critically acclaimed and award-winning journalist Jack Fairweather\r\n brilliantly portrays the remarkable man who volunteered to\r\n face the unknown.\r\n\r\n This extraordinary and eye-opening account of the Holocaust invites\r\n us all to bear witness.