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

In this volume, the author 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 accounts—some chronicled in book form for the first time— the author illuminates the defiance of tens of thousands of Jews across eleven Nazi-occupied countries during World War II.