Holy Week: A Novel of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

by Jerzy Andrzejewski

Book Overview

At the height of the Nazi extermination campaign in the Warsaw Ghetto, a young Jewish woman, Irena, seeks the protection of her former lover, a young architect, Jan Malecki. By taking her in, he puts his own life and the safety of his family at risk. Over a four-day period, Tuesday through Friday of Holy Week 1943, as Irena becomes increasinglytraumatized by her situation, Malecki questions his decision to shelter Irena in the apartment where Malecki,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821417150
• ISBN13: 9780821417157
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Length: 149 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

a very moving book, amust read

i really liked the way the book was written, you could almost feel yourself in the house with these people and suffer what they must have been going thru.. a must read.