The uprising of the Warsaw ghetto, November 1940-May 1943.
Edition: [1st ed.]
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Published: 1968
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 157
Subjects: Warsaw (Poland) -- History -- Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1943 -- Juvenile literature.; Warsaw (Poland) -- History -- Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1943.
Description: Describes the events that led to the German invasion of Poland and the three-week siege of the city of Warsaw; examines the daily life of ghetto-imprisoned Jews, the work of social welfare groups and underground activists, cooperative smuggling by city and ghetto citizens, and the overwhelming disease and starvation of the ghetto; and details the foredoomed street uprising by a population that chose to "die with honor."