TY - BOOK AU - Serraillier, Ian TI - The silver sword SN - 0099439492 (pbk.) : U1 - 823.914 PY - 2003/// CY - London PB - Red Fox KW - Warsaw (Poland) - History - Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1943 - Fiction KW - Refugee children - Poland - Fiction N1 - Originally published: London: Jonathan Cape, 1956 N2 - The night the Nazis come to take their mother away, three children escape in a terrifying scramble across the rooftops. Alone in the chaos of Warsaw, they have to learn to survive on their own. Then they meet Jan, a ragged boy with a paper knife- the silver sword - that they recognize as belonging to their long lost father. The sword becomes their symbol of hope as, with Jan they begin the harardous journey across war-torn Europe to find their parents ER -