28 Days: A Novel of Resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto

by David Safier

Hardcover, 2020

Status

Available

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T F SAF

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Publication

Feiwel & Friends (2020), 416 pages

Description

In Warsaw, Poland, in 1942, Mira faces impossible decisions after learning that the Warsaw ghetto is to be "liquidated," but a group of young people are planning an uprising against their Nazi captors.

Barcode

6606

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User reviews

LibraryThing member Circlestonesbooks
I donĀ“t really like the other books of this author, but "28 Tage lang" is different, although with a more than serious, real background, this book is an impressive historic report of the situation of daily life and growing resistance of a group of young people in Warsaw Ghetto. I am still deeply
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impressed.
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LibraryThing member Griffin_Reads
28 Days follows Mira, a seventeen-year-old Jewish girl who has to smuggle food for her family to survive. She soon meets a man who is involved in the resistance movement within the camp against the Nazis. Meeting him is a catalyst for her analyzing how she interacts with the world and the people
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around her and she starts questioning what type of person she wants to be.

It is an incredibly heavy story and is a difficult read because of the content. The violence committed by the Nazis and Polish people (and even some Jews) against the Jewish people was depicted quite graphically, so the book comes with a trigger warning for racism, antisemitism, and violence.

I did feel that the pacing of the book was a little odd. Parts of it were incredibly fast while others were very slow. While I understand putting in part of Mira's life before the 28 Days of resistance was needed for character development, it felt like the part the book wanted to focus on only happened in the last third of the book.

This isn't the type of book you can say you enjoyed reading, but it was a good and necessary read.
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LibraryThing member Kristelh
Reason read: TIOLI #1, time. On my TBR since 2022.
This book is YA, obtained through AudioSync Summer program. It is a story set in WWII and involves Jewish resistance. The setting is Warsaw, Poland. Strong female character written by male author. The story is inspired by some true events that did
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happen to the author's family.
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ISBN

1250237149 / 9781250237149
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