Janina's War: How a Teenager Survived Nazis, the Resistance, and the Most Horrific War on Earth

When Evil Appears, Heroes Rise. Heroic girls grow into courageous women. Warsaw, Poland, 1939. As bombs fall, Janina runs from her school into a city filled with terror. People scream and hit the ground with each explosion. She ducks into the Palonia Hotel and is immediately captured by Germans. The captain quickly becomes infatuated with her and forces her on an errand to deliver stolen valuables from hotel guests to German headquarters by train. But the bags of jewels, money, and furs never arrive at their destination.Janina's War is the amazing true story of Janina Korzeniewska, a seventeen-year-old girl when World War II starts in Warsaw, who is captured by Nazis several times from 1939-1945 and always finds a way to escape. During the early years of the war, she works with her family members in the Polish Resistance to free Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto and hide them at the family farm. As a captive, she helps other captives escape German soldiers as they all struggle to break away from their violent oppressors.Inspired by a family of true heroes, Janina's War illustrates what one young woman can do when guided by her wit, courage, and undaunted spirit to survive captivity, labor camps, and the horrors of an evil dictator and his brutal war machine. Read more