Beyond Courage, Doreen Rappaport
Beyond Courage, Doreen Rappaport
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Beyond Courage
The Untold Story of Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust

Author: Doreen Rappaport

Narrator: Emily Beresford, Jeff Crawford

Unabridged: 4 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/11/2012

Synopsis

In a stirring chronicle, Doreen Rappaport brings to light the courage of countless Jews who organized to sabotage the Nazis and help other Jews during the Holocaust.Under the noses of the military, Georges Loinger smuggles thousands of children out of occupied France into Switzerland. In Belgium, three resisters ambush a train, allowing scores of Jews to flee from the cattle cars. In Poland, four brothers lead more than 1,200 ghetto refugees into the forest to build a guerilla force and self-sufficient village. And twelve-year-old Motele Shlayan entertains German officers with his violin moments before setting off a bomb. Through twenty-one meticulously researched accounts—some chronicled in book form for the first time—Doreen Rappaport illuminates the defiance of tens of thousands of Jews across eleven Nazi-occupied countries during World War II. In answer to the genocidal madness that was Hitler’s Holocaust, the only response they could abide was resistance, and their greatest weapons were courage, ingenuity, the will to survive, and the resolve to save others or to die trying.

About Doreen Rappaport

Doreen Rappaport is the recipient of a Children’s Book Guild Nonfiction Award for her body of work. Her books have been praised for both their careful research and their varied literary styles. Among the many titles to her name are a trilogy on African-American history, illustrated by Shane W. Evans; books on Native American history and women’s history; and many biographies, including Lady Liberty: A Biography, illustrated by Matt Tavares. Beyond Courage, her most ambitious project to date, took more than six years to research and write and presented her with the opportunity to speak directly with some of the survivors whose stories are told within. “How Jews organized themselves in order to survive and defy their enemy is an important but still neglected piece of history,” she says. “I present a sampling of actions, efforts, and heroism with the hope that I can play a role in helping to correct the damaging and persistent belief that Jews ‘went like sheep to the slaughter.’” Doreen Rappaport lives in upstate New York.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Charles on September 05, 2012

Not all Jews walked obediently into Hitler’s gas chambers during the Holocaust. There are many stories of Jews who took up arms and fought the might of Nazi Germany. Despite being vastly outnumbered, out gunned and out-trained, these Jews refused to succumb to Hitler’s genocide. They fought in city......more

Goodreads review by Margo on September 24, 2012

In a stunning work of nonfiction for young people, award-winning author Doreen Rappaport has just published an ambitious new work profiling little-known true stories of Jewish resistance during the Holocaust, a book that took her six years to research and write. Her extensive research for this proje......more

Goodreads review by Theresa on October 20, 2012

I loved this book so much. I have always been very interested in this time period of history. Doreen Rappaport paints a picture of amazing Jewish resistance and courage during the Holocaust. The book has facts at the end listing the important dates of the war, and is organized in an appealing way. I......more

Goodreads review by Dakota on January 13, 2017

Personal Response:Beyond Courage: The Untold Story of Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust by Doreen Rappaport, was a good book. I have always been interested in the history of the Holocaust. This book was a true story of events that happened leading up to the Holocaust and what took place during......more

Goodreads review by Ernie on October 12, 2012

Rappaport succeeds in her aim to tell the mostly unknown stories of those Jews who resisted the Nazi Holocaust and those righteous gentiles who supported them. These non-fiction accounts use photographs and personal accounts of survivors, supported by the poems written by the Theresienstadt inmates.......more

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