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"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."--Amazon.com. ; A popularly written collection of essays on Jewish armed and spiritual resistance to the Holocaust, as well as the rescue of Jews by courageous non-Jews during the Holocaust. Discusses rescue of Jewish children in Belgium and smuggling of Jews from the Netherlands; the Belski brothers' family camp in the Naliboki forest; resistance in the Warsaw and Vilna ghettos; spiritual resistance in the Theresienstadt ghetto; attempts at maintaining Jewish tradition in Nazi camps; an escape from a deportation train from the Mechelen camp in Belgium in April 1943; the uprising in the Sobibór death camp; the Sonderkommando revolt in Birkenau in 1944; the Jewish partisan warfare in France, Greece, and the USSR; and other examples of Jewish resistance. Provided with numerous photographs. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
| Title |
Beyond courage : the untold story of Jewish resistance during the Holocaust / Doreen Rappaport. |
|---|---|
| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Publisher |
Somerville, Mass : Candlewick Press |
| Creation Date |
c2012 |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-221) and index. |
| Content |
The realization : " I am a Jew and will be Jew forever". Hitler in power : Germany, 1933-1938. The turning point : Berlin Germany A wrenching decision : Berlin, Germany -- Saving the future : "While you have breath". Hitler's campaign for world domination. Coffee and tea : Amsterdam, the Occupied Netherlands No more Saras : Occupied Belgium The most important game : Annemasse, Occupied France "You do not know the extent of my courage" : Annemasse, Occupied France In the forests. A shtetl in the wilderness : Naliboki Forest, Occupied Poland -- In the ghettos : "Broken people". The Final Solution. The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising : Occupied Poland "Scream the truth at the world!" : the Ringelblum Archive, Warsaw Ghetto, Occupied Poland A banner raised : Theresienstadt Ghetto, Occupied Czechoslovakia "Resist to our last breath" : Vilna Ghetto, Occupied Lithuania -- In the camps : "During the cold nights". Transit camps. The ambush : Mechelen, Occupied Belgium Labor camps. Three feet a day : Novogrudok Labor Camp, Occupied Belorussia Concentration camps. A secret celebration : Kaufering IV Labor Camp, Hurlach, Germany The Sonderkommando Revolt : Auschwitz-Birkenau, Occupied Poland Death camps. "Like thunder in the spring" : Sobibor Death Camp, Occupied Poland -- Partisan warfare : "This song was written with our blood, and not with lead". Harassing the enemy. Sabotage! : Berlin, Germany Phantom patriots. Long live the Resistance! : Paris, Occupied France The occupation of Greece. Invisible warriors : Evvia, Occupied Greece Young warriors. The violinist : Ovruch, Occupied Ukraine -- "I am a Jew and will be a Jew forever". |
| Extent |
228 pages : ill., maps, ports 26 cm. |
| Language |
English |
| National Library system number |
990034377860205171 |
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