Inspired by true events, David Safire's 28 Days- A Novel of Resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto is a harrowing historical Ya that chronicles the brutality of the Holocaust. Warsaw, 1942. Sixteen- year old Mira 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.