Holy Week: A Novel of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

by Jerzy Andrzejewski

Book Overview

At the height of the Nazi extermination campaign in the Warsaw Ghetto, a young Jewish woman, Irena, seeks the protection of her former lover, a young architect, Jan Malecki. By taking her in, he puts his own life and the safety of his family at risk. Over a four-day period, Tuesday through Friday of Holy Week 1943, as Irena becomes increasingly traumatized by her situation, Malecki questions his decision to shelter Irena in the apartment where...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821417169
• ISBN13: 9780821417164
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

a very moving book, amust read

i really liked the way the book was written, you could almost feel yourself in the house with these people and suffer what they must have been going thru.. a must read.