Squirrel Is Alive - A Teenager in the Belgian Resistance and French Underground

"Originally published in 2012 by the D.B. Reinhart Institute for Ethics in Leadership at Viterbo University."--Tile page verso.

About the author

Mireille Rostad was sixteen years old when the Nazis invaded her hometown of Brussels, Belgium. Using a false ID and a relying on a system of underground networks established by the resistance, she walked to France where she served as a medic and distributed clandestine newspapers. She served in the resistance for the remainder of the war using the code name "Squirrel." After the war she worked in counterintelligence in General Dwight D. Eisenhower's Frankfurt headquarters. She is the recipient of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor.

Product details

• Authors: Mary Rostad, Mary/ Hessel Rostad
• Publisher: Fulcrum Publications
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 13 to 17
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.2023
• EAN: 9781682753774
• ISBN: 978-1-68275-377-4
• No. of pages: 158
• Subject: Children's and young people's books > Non-fiction books / Non-fiction picture books > History, politics