A stirring chronicle that shares meticulously researched accounts of heroic Jews who organized to help others and sabotage the Nazis during the Holocaust includes information about Georges Loinger's efforts to smuggle thousands of children from occupied France into Switzerland and the four brothers who led more than 1,200 refugees into the forest to build a village and an army.

A stirring chronicle that shares meticulously researched accounts of heroic Jews who organized to help others and sabotage the Nazis during the Holocaust includes information about Georges Loinger's efforts to smuggle thousands of children from occupied France into Switzerland and the four brothers who led more than 1,200 refugees into the forest to build a village and an army. 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