Warsaw Is My Country: The Story of Krystyna Bierzynska, 1928-1945

by Beth Holmgren

Book Overview

This story of Krystyna Bierzyńska, an acculturated Polish Jew, explores how she survived the Holocaust thanks to the efforts of her Jewish and surrogate Christian families and served in the 1944 Warsaw Uprising. Bierzyńska's is a Warsaw story that demonstrates how, in urban interwar Poland, acculturated Jews at last dared to believe that they qualified as Polish patriots.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1618117599
• ISBN13: 9781618117595
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: Academic Studies Press
• Length: 132 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 15 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Grades 10 to 5