"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 deadand moving their bodies from the gas chambers to the crematoriums...Every morning, Anna marches miles to the union munitions factory where she works alongside other prisoners...she and a few other women have been taking the ultimate risk, smuggling traceamounts of gunpowder back in their clothing. A bold plan is brewing to revolt against the SS and liberate the camp"--
