Beyond courage : the untold story of Jewish resistance during the Holocaust
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Beyond courage : the untold story of Jewish resistance during the Holocaust
Description
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)
Creator
Doreen Rappaport.