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A Rebel in Auschwitz
Book Review
The best part about the book was the fact that there was always something going on from moment to moment
A Rebel in Auschwitz is an amazing book which has lots of shocking truths about what life was like during World War II for Jewish people. Previously, I had been taught about this topic in school but never realised in such detail how horrific the events truly were. This book has really opened my eyes up to how lucky we are to live in a world free of fear of this happening to us.
I really like how the book is based on a true story, it makes it more compelling. The book also includes many facts which help further put into perspective the numbers of people killed during the holocaust in Auschwitz. However, during this awful time for humanity the book showed that there was still hope and that there were people willing to stand up against the evil that was happening.
The best part about the book was the fact that there was always something going on from moment to moment. It might be a plan to escape or times when they were sick trying to survive the awful diseases. It was a story of survival.
The book also had a long part at the end that explained about the characters involved and how the author found out about those people. It describes how the author researched and created the book, including interviewing the families of the people that were involved in the book. This section gave an insight into how much effort went into writing this book.
To conclude, the book is a really good read and I would advise people to read it if you can. It tells you a lot about the history and the horror we should never forget.
About the Book
This fascinating, exciting, shocking and moving story is a young reader’s edition of The Volunteer – Jack Fairweather’s Costa Book of the Year. An extraordinary, eye-opening account of the Holocaust based on the true story of a Polish officer who reported on the crimes taking place in Nazi concentration camp.
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. Readers who like history will appreciate the maps and photographs from the archives. We have included some examples below.
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…
Author
Jack Fairweather
Jack Fairweather (born 1978) is a British journalist turned author, who served as a war correspondent — including time embedded with British troops in Iraq — before shifting to writing history and biography. His most acclaimed work, ‘The Volunteer,’ telling the story of a Polish resistance fighter who infiltrated Auschwitz, won the 2019 Costa Book Award for Book of the Year and became a bestselling modern classic.
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