Charles A. Higgins Books

"Previously published in 2005 as 151 Quick Ideas to Inspire Your Staff by Career Press"--Verso.

In September 1939, as the Nazis invade Warsaw, social worker Irena Sendler watches in horror from her apartment. The city's impoverished residents are already suffering, and Irena is determined to continue delivering food and supplies to those in need, including the forbidden Jewish population. Her circumstances change dramatically when she is taken before Gestapo agent Klaus Rein, who offers her a position managing soup kitchens to maintain a facade of order. Despite her reluctance to work for the Germans, Irena discovers ways to resist, including forging documents to ensure Jewish families receive food meant for Aryans. As Irena becomes more daring, her relationship with Klaus grows increasingly dangerous. Although he suspects her actions, he lacks evidence. With Warsaw's Jews confined to the ghetto, Irena realizes that merely providing food is insufficient. She joins the underground resistance group Zegota and embarks on a bold mission to rescue Jewish children. They are smuggled out in baskets and garbage carts, or guided through sewers to safety, each success inciting Klaus's wrath. As he seeks to suppress the resistance, Irena finds herself in a perilous game of cat-and-mouse, where any mistake could cost her life and the lives of those she strives to save.

"October 1944: In the long, narrow undressing rooms in Auschwitz-Birkenau, prisoner Jakub Bak toils under the scrutiny of SS guards. Like other members of the Sonderkommando, Jakub was selected on arrival for an unthinkable job: sorting through the clothes of the dead and moving their bodies from the gas chambers to the crematoriums. In this hell within a hell, Jakub clings to the promise he made to his murdered father--to live, at any cost--and to the moments he is able to spend in the company of Anna, imprisoned in the women's camp. Every morning, Anna marches miles to the Union Munitions Factory where she works alongside other prisoners. Even Jakub doesn't know that she and a few other women have been taking the ultimate risk, smuggling trace amounts of gunpowder back in their clothing. A bold plan is brewing to revolt against the SS and liberate the camp. Jakub, pressured to join the resistance, knows that any uprising faces impossible odds. Added to this already stark choice is another desperate reality--the risk from informers who see their only chance of survival in betraying their fellow Jews."

In 1948 Berlin, Sara Sturm, a German woman working for the U.S. Department of Public Affairs, is dispatched to investigate a store vandalized with swastikas and helps two Jewish Holocaust survivors track down a Nazi nuclear scientist whose knowledge may determine the course of countless wars to come

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