Research Catalog

Title

Impossible escape : a true story of survival and heroism in Nazi Germany / Steve Sheinkin.

Author

Sheinkin, Steve

Publication

• New York : Roaring Brook Press, 2023.
• ©2023

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Details

Description

xi, 243 pages : illustrations, map; 24 cm

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. Even if death is more likely. 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 Sidonová. 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. The clock is ticking. 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."--

Alternative Title

• True story of survival and heroism in Nazi Germany
• True story of survival and heroism in Nazi Europe

Subject

• Vrba, Rudolf > Juvenile literature
• Vrbová, Gerta > Juvenile literature
• 1939-1945
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Europe > Juvenile literature
• Jews > Persecutions > Europe > Juvenile literature
• Nazi concentration camp escapes > Juvenile literature
• Escaped prisoners of war > Juvenile literature
• Jews > Persecutions

Genre/Form

• Young adult nonfiction.
• Juvenile works.
• Creative nonfiction.
• Biographies.

Note

• Cover title: Impossible escape : a true story of survival and heorism in Nazi Europe.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-235) and index.

Audience (note)

• 850L
• Ages 12-18
• Grades 10-12

Awards (note)

• Junior Library Guild selection

Contents

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

Call Number

JFE 24-573

ISBN

• 9781250265722
• 125026572X

LCCN

2023018607

OCLC

1377548762

Author

Sheinkin, Steve, author.

Title

Impossible escape : a true story of survival and heroism in Nazi Germany / Steve Sheinkin.

Publisher

New York : Roaring Brook Press, 2023.

Copyright Date

©2023

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Audience

850L Lexile.

Ages 12-18 Roaring Brook Press.

Grades 10-12 Roaring Brook Press.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-235) and index.

Awards

Junior Library Guild selection

Chronological Term

1939-1945

Research Call Number

JFE 24-573