Bibliograph

Impossible escape, a true story of survival and heroism in Nazi Europe, Steve Sheinkin

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Impossible escape, a true story of survival and heroism in Nazi Europe, Steve Sheinkin

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-235) and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

illustrationsmaps

Index

index present

resource.interestAgeLevel

Ages 12-18, Roaring Brook Press

resource.interestGradeLevel

Grades 10-12, Roaring Brook Press

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Impossible escape

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1377548762

Responsibility statement

Steve Sheinkin

Sub title

a true story of survival and heroism in Nazi Europe

Summary

It is 1944. A teenager named Rudolph (Rudi) Vrba has made up his mind. After barely surviving nearly two years in the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland, he knows he must escape. Rudi has learned the terrible secret hidden behind the heavily guarded fences of concentration camps across Nazi-occupied Europe: the methodical mass killing of Jewish prisoners. As trains full of people arrive daily, Rudi knows that the murders won't stop until he reveals the truth to the world--and that each day that passes means more lives are lost. Lives like Rudi's schoolmate Gerta Sidonov̀. Gerta's family fled from Slovakia to Hungary, where they live under assumed names to hide their Jewish identity. But Hungary is beginning to cave under pressure from German Nazis. Her chances of survival become slimmer by the day. As Gerta inches closer to capture, Rudi and his friend Alfred Wetzler begin their crucial steps towards an impossible escape. This is the true story of one of the most famous whistleblowers in the world, and how his death-defying escape helped save over 100,000 lives

Table Of Contents

Prologue: leaving home -- Part I: Capture -- Part II: Survival -- Part III: Escape -- Epilogue: The story is the thing

Target audience

adolescent

Classification