The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: Striking a Blow Against the Nazis

by Linda Jacobs Altman

Book Overview

The Warsaw ghetto uprising was a battle the Jews could not hope to win against the more powerful Nazis, but they decided not to go quietly to certain death. When Germany invaded Poland in 1939, beginning World War II, the Nazis quickly destroyed Jewish life. After stripping Jews of all their rights, the Nazis forced them into a ghetto surrounded by brick walls. After more than three years of starvation, disease, and death, the Jewish people decided...

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0766033201
• ISBN13: 9780766033207
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Enslow Publishing
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.7" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 11 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 6 to 12