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"The definitive study of the topic," Prof. Antony Polonsky, Emeritus Professor of Holocaust Studies, Brandeis University, and Chief Historian, POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews. Incredible story of the prisoner underground at Auschwitz, meticulously researched and highly readable. More than 200 photos and maps. Winner of the SILVER AWARD for HISTORY at the 2019 Benjamin Franklin Awards.

Soldier, Patriot¿Husband, Father¿HeroCaptain Witold Pilecki¿the only man who volunteered to be captured and imprisoned in Auschwitz to bring out the story of the camp.September 1940. With calm deliberation, Polish Army officer Witold Pilecki walked into a Nazi German street round-up in Warsaw¿and became Auschwitz Prisoner No. 4859.Pilecki had volunteered for a potentially suicidal secret undercover mission for the Polish Underground: smuggle out intelligence about this new German concentration camp, and build a resistance organization among the prisoners.Barely surviving nearly three years of hunger, disease and brutality, Pilecki accomplished his mission before escaping in April 1943.His clandestine intelligence reports from Auschwitz, received by the Allies beginning in 1941, were among the earliest, including the full horrors of daily life inside the camp, the killing of Soviet soldiers taken as prisoners of war, the building of the gas chambers and mass extermination of the Jews brought to the camp.Pilecki¿s most comprehensive report on Auschwitz, written for his Polish Army superiors in 1945, is being published here in English for the first time.¿A shining example of heroism that transcends religion, race and time.¿¿ Rabbi Michael Schudrich, Chief Rabbi of Poland

Traces arc of one of millions of American immigrant families, survivors of WWII.

Follows Kulski, 10-year-old Boy Scout when WWII begins, as he is recruited into clandestine Polish Underground Army by his Scoutmaster, undertakes secret mission into Warsaw Ghetto, is captured by the Gestapo, sentenced to Auschwitz, rescued, fights in the Warsaw Uprising and ends as a 16-year-old German POW.

1.5 million Polish civilians - arbitrarily arrested by Stalin as enemies of the people following the Soviet invasion of Poland in September 1939 - were deported to slave labor camps throughout the most inhospitable forests and steppes of the Soviet Union. This title presents a story of young Stefan Waydenfeld and his family.

September 1940. With calm deliberation, Polish Army officer Witold Pilecki walked into a Nazi German street roundup in Warsaw... and became Auschwitz Prisoner No. 4859.

A novel drawn from a little known chapter of World War II history - the brutal Soviet deportations of 1.5 million Polish civilians to forced labor camps in Siberia shortly after the Soviets occupied eastern Poland at the beginning of the war. It explores the impacts of this shattering experience on a family from four points of view.

Written by a young working mother, this title covers rare eyewitness account of early, chaotic days of WWII - Nazi invasion of Poland, Siege of Warsaw and first months of Occupation.