International bestselling author Mario Escobar captures the strength of the human spirit and the enduring power of kindness in this moving novel based on the true story of a brave Polish teacher who cared for hundreds of orphans in the Warsaw Ghetto.
September 1939. The Nazis have invaded Poland and Agnieszka Ignaciuk, a young widow and mother, watches helplessly as her country is overrun. Desperate and afraid, Agnieszka turns to the local orphanage run by Janusz Korczak for shelter and is relieved when he hires her as a teacher. As the country struggles to live day-to-day life under German occupation, Agnieszka finds comfort in Januszs favorite method of teaching his orphans: storytelling.
When over 400,000 Jewish people are rounded up and forced to live in the 1.3 square mile walled compound of the Warsaw Ghetto, starvation and disease overwhelm the residents. And as the number of orphans steadily grows, Janusz, Agnieszka, and the other teachers take drastic measures to keep the children alive; maintain their dignity; and, above all, sacrifice for the least of these.
Unforgettable and devastating, The Teacher of Warsaw proves that, even in the midst of the darkest moments in history, hope cannot be impeded when love survives.