Beyond Courage: The Untold Story of Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust

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.
Back matter includes a pronunciation guide, a list of important dates, source notes, a bibliography, a bibliography by chapter, and an index.

Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
Published: 09/11/2012
Pages: 240
Weight: 2.42lbs
Size: 9.80h x 8.70w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780763629762
Age: Ages 9-12

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 7.4
Point Value: 7
Interest Level: Middle Grade Plus
Quiz #/Name: 153738 / Beyond Courage: The Untold Story of Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust


Award: Sydney Taylor Book Award - Honor Book
Award: Children's Book Committee Award - Winner
Award: Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens - Recommended
Award: Alabama Camellia Award - Nominee


Review Citation(s):
Booklist 07/01/2012 pg. 54
Voice of Youth Advocates 08/01/2012 pg. 289 - Recommended - Hard To Beat
Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2012 pg. 1683
School Library Journal 08/01/2012 pg. 115
Publishers Weekly 08/06/2012
Shelf Awareness 09/25/2012
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 11/01/2012 - Book Of Special Distinction
Publishers Weekly Best Books 11/05/2012 pg. 41
New York Times Book Review 11/11/2012 pg. 34
NY Times Notable Bks of Year 12/02/2012 pg. 33
Kirkus Best Young-Adult Books 12/01/2012 pg. 78
Booklist Ed Choice Youth 01/01/2013 pg. 11
Kirkus Bea Big Book Guide 05/15/2012 pg. 86
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2013 pg. 180 - Superior,Well Above Average

About the Author
Doreen Rappaport is the author of numerous award-winning nonfiction books for young readers. Beyond Courage, her most ambitious project to date, took five years to research and write. She lives in upstate New York.

How Jews organized themselves in order to survive and defy their enemy is an important but still neglected piece of history. 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