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.
This is the True Story of one of the most famous whistleblowers in the world, and how his death-defying escape helped save over 100,000 lives..
As Gerta inches closer to capture, Rudi and his friend Alfred Wetzler begin their crucial steps towards an Impossible escape.
The clock is ticking.
Her chances of Survival become slimmer by the day.
But Hungary is beginning to cave under pressure from German Nazis.
Gerta\'s family fled from Slovakia to Hungary, where they live under assumed names to hide their Jewish identity.
Lives like Rudi\'s schoolmate Gerta Sidonová.
As trains full of people arrive daily, Rudi knows that the murders won\'t stop until he reveals the truth to the world--and that each day that passes means more lives are lost.
Rudi has learned the terrible secret hidden behind the heavily guarded fences of concentration camps across Nazi-occupied Europe: the methodical mass killing of Jewish prisoners.
Even if death is more likely.
After barely surviving nearly two years in the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland, he knows he must escape.
A teenager named Rudolph (Rudi) Vrba has made up his mind.
It is 1944.
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
