A review by robhood
28 Days: A Novel of Resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto by David Safier

5.0

David Safier’s 28 Days is a novel of resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto. It is a harrowing historical young adult novel that chronicles the brutality of the Holocaust. The book is inspired by true events and tells the story of sixteen-year-old Mira who smuggles food into the ghetto to keep herself and her family alive. When she discovers that the entire ghetto is to be “liquidated” - killed or “resettled” to concentration camps - she desperately tries to find a way to save her family. She meets a group of young people who are planning the unthinkable: an uprising against the occupying forces. Mira joins the resistance fighters who, with minimal supplies and weapons, end up holding out for twenty-eight days, longer than anyone had thought possible