Impossible Escape: A True Story of Survival and Heroism in Nazi Europe

by Steve Sheinkin

From three-time National Book Award finalist and Newbery Honor author Steve Sheinkin, a true story of two Jewish teenagers racing against time during the Holocaust--one in hiding in Hungary, and the other in Auschwitz, plotting escape.

It is 1944. A teenager named Rudolf (Rudi) Vrba has made up his mind. After barely surviving nearly two years in the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland, he knows he must escape. Even if death...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 125026572X
• ISBN13: 9781250265722
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 12 to 18 years
• Grade Range: Grade 7 to Postsecondary