Product Description
Based on extensive research, a fictionalised account of the first days of the Holocaust, and the true story of how one teenage boy managed to escape the horrors of the death camps.
In January 1942, a group of young Jews are rounded up in a small town in Poland and taken to an experimental site near Chelmno. At first, they have no idea why the Nazis have picked them out for special treatment, or why they've been imprisoned rather than killed. Over the following few days, they gradually piece together the terrible truth of what they are witnessing. One of their number, a boy called Jakob Preiss, struggles to overcome his fears and find a way home.
In January 1942, a group of young Jews are rounded up in a small town in Poland and taken to an experimental site near Chelmno. At first, they have no idea why the Nazis have picked them out for special treatment, or why they've been imprisoned rather than killed. Over the following few days, they gradually piece together the terrible truth of what they are witnessing. One of their number, a boy called Jakob Preiss, struggles to overcome his fears and find a way home.
