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Rebel in Auschwitz

The True Story of the Resistance Hero Who Fought the Nazis' Greatest Crime from Inside the Camp

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With exclusive access to previously hidden diaries, family and camp survivor accounts, and recently declassified files, critically-acclaimed and award-winning journalist Jack Fairweather brilliantly portrays the remarkable man who volunteered to face the unknown in the name of truth and country. This extraordinary and eye-opening account of the Holocaust invites us all to bear

witness.

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.

To do so meant attempting the impossible — but first he would have to escape from Auschwitz itself...

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    • School Library Journal

      April 1, 2022

      Gr 7 Up-What's immediately striking here is the casting of a woman to narrate: the titular rebel is the Polish hero-a man-Witold Pilecki. So, too, is the author Fairweather, who adapted his 2019 award-winning The Volunteer. The reasons for choosing a female voice never seem obvious, but Betsy Meiman confidently reads on, her performance consistently crisp and thoughtful. In a narrative about Auschwitz, the graphic horrors haunt, but Meiman remains in careful control, never devolving toward frenzied overdramatization. Three months after the Germans opened the infamous Polish death camp, Pilecki entered its hell in September 1940: "his mission, for the Polish resistance [was] to infiltrate the camp, create an underground resistance, and gather evidence of Nazi crimes." Pilecki survived for almost three years inside, saving lives, enabling escapes. His deserved recognition happened only after his death. VERDICT She's an unconventional narrator choice, but Meiman doesn't disappoint.

      Copyright 2022 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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