Under the Rubble : The Hidden Letters of the Warsaw Ghetto

"A powerful and accessible introduction to the horrors of the Holocaust for younger readers...a valuable addition to any library collection." -School Library JournalOn September 1, 1939 Germany invaded Poland setting off WWII.The following year Nazis forced nearly 450,000 Polish Jews into a crowded ghetto in the capital city of Warsaw.By the end of the war, most of those imprisoned had been killed, either in concentration camps or on the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.But miraculously, their stories survived. HOW? That’s a story in itself . . . When the Jewish prisoners of Warsaw Ghetto realize that Nazi atrocities might go unanswered, they courageously risk their lives and resist with just pen and paper as their weapons.In an act of defiance, they write and bury deep underground a complete record of what they endured.After the war, Hersh Wasser, the only survivor who knows where the records are buried, leads the effort to recover them. This true story of the Oneg Shabbat Archive was the subje