The Bravest Battle: The Twenty-eight Days Of The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
by Dan Kurzman
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"Monumental and awe-inspiring, this is the definitive story of the Warsaw Ghetto revolt. . . . The narrative accumulates power up to the last word."--Meyer Levin, Washington Star In October 1940 Nazis forced all the Jews in the Polish city of Warsaw to live in the cramped squalor of a small ghetto. Despite the starvation and disease that claimed 50,000 lives per year, the Jews were not dying swiftly enough to suit Heinrich Himmler, who ordered in 1942 that the Warsaw Ghetto be dismantled and show more the 450,000 inhabitants be deported to the gas chambers at Treblinka. On April 19, 1943, the first day of Passover, two thousand German troops, singing confidently, marched into the ghetto to round up the remnant of remaining Jews. Suddenly, a fifteen-year-old girl tossed a grenade in their midst. Within minutes the German army had been routed. The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising had begun. This is the first full-scale, step-by-step account of the climatic twenty-eight-day struggle of the poorly armed Jews against their Nazi exterminators. The Bravest Battle took more than two years to write and involved interviewing more than 500 people, including most of the surviving fighters. This moving history cannot be matched for its authenticity and drama. The Bravest Battle is a testament to the Warsaw Jews, who fought for survival with dignity and courage. "This is perhaps Kurzman's best work. . . . He mixes moments of tenderness amid the terror as he draws individual portraits that endure."--Publishers Weekly show lessTags
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Good account of the resistance of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto. One of the few times they fought back during the Holocaust. People smuggled arms and food in through the sewers. The Nazis had sealed off the ghetto and were attempting to exterminate them. Very few survived at the end.
NO OF PAGES: 458 SUB CAT I: Historic Fiction SUB CAT II: Holocaust SUB CAT III: DESCRIPTION: This is the first full-scale, step-by-step account of the climatic twenty-eight day struggle of the Warsaw Ghetto Jews against their Nazi exterminators. This heroic event marked the beginning of Jewish will to survive, and ultimately to Israel the nation.NOTES: SUBTITLE: The 28 Days of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Day by day history of the month-long Jewish uprising
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Dan Kurzman, former foreign correspondent for the Washington Post, is the award-winning author of sixteen other highly acclaimed books, including Fatal Voyage and Bravest Battle
Common Knowledge
- Important places
- Warsaw, Poland
- Important events
- World War II (1939-1945); Holocaust; Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
- Dedication
- To Stephen and Joel whose generation, hopefully, will not forget
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- Languages
- English, Finnish, German
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