Beyond Courage. Jewish Resistance during the Holocaust Lecture

On Sunday, February 23, 2014 at 12:15 pm, award-winning
author, Doreen Rappaport, will be speaking at Congregation B’nai Israel (CBI) about
her new book Beyond Courage: The untold
story of Jewish Resistance during the Holocaust. The book is a stirring
collection of true stories of Jews
and non-Jews who organized to sabotage the Nazis and help others during the
Holocaust. The program will begin with a light lunch at 12:15 pm and the lecture
will begin promptly at 12:45 pm. 
Adults and children, age 10 and older, are welcome to attend.  Following the lecture, Rappaport will
sign copies of her book.

            Rappaport has written many books of fiction and nonfiction and
specializes in books for young adults. She is
the recipient of The Washington Post Children’s Book Guild Award for Lifetime
Achievement for the writing of non-fiction.  Beyond Courage has
won numerous awards and was named by the Jewish Book
Council as a 2013 Jewish Book Month Selection.  The Wall Street Journal called the book
“beautifully designed and a sobering, bittersweet read.”  Jewish Book World Magazine wrote, “Beyond
Courage is full of the kinds of stories that give you gooseflesh and …
is a reminder that tremendous acts of courage were carried out by ordinary
people who took a stand under extraordinarily difficult circumstances.”           

            Rappaport explained that she wrote
the book because acts of resistance are not well known. “From the beginning of
Hitler’s ascent in Germany and all through the war, Jews resisted the Nazis
with uprisings and escapes and rebellions.
Jewish
partisans played cat-and-mouse with German troops, bombing military transports,
shooting informers and collaborators, and dynamiting German army warehouses.”
 Rappaport continued, “but
resistance was not defined just by dramatic, militant events. Jews also refused
to renounce their religion and celebrated their holidays in secret, set up
secret schools to give their children hope for the future, became expert
forgers, providing others with new identity and ration cards and devised
ingenious ways to smuggle children out of danger.”           

            Congregation
B’nai Israel is located at 171 Ridge Road in Rumson, at the corner of Ridge and
Hance Roads. The
Library Committee is sponsoring the event, which is free for members and $5 for
non-members.  Registration is
required by February 21, 2014. For more information about CBI and to register
for the event, visit www.cbirumson.org or call
732-842-1800.
For more information about Rappaport or Beyond
Courage, visit www.doreenrappaport.com.  Books will be available for sale on the day of the lecture
but to purchase the book before or after the event, contact River Road Books at
759 River Road, Fair Haven, NJ or visit www.riverroadbooks.net.