num_pages: 218
description: Warsaw 1942 - Dad's in prison. Mother's about to be arrested. Edek, enraged, shoots one of the Nazi Storm Troopers. Now Edek and his two sisters must escape - and fast! Leaving their bombed house, they flee across rooftops, the Secret Police already on their trail. A harrowing story of three young fugitives and their Nazi pursuers . . . taken from true accounts.
language: English
title: Escape From Warsaw
titlecomplete: Escape From Warsaw
characters: Bronia Balacki, Edek, Ruth Balacki
genres: Historical, Young Adult, Classics, Childrens, World War II, Adventure, Holocaust, War, Historical Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 7945
places: Switzerland, Poland, Warsaw
publisher: Scholastic