Title: Resistance
Author: Jennifer A. Nielsen
Genre: Historical Fiction, Middle Grade
Format: Kindle
Pages: 322
Reason Read: Book Club
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My Thoughts

RESISTANCE is a powerful story of courage and bravery of the Jewish people during World War II. I loved learning about the true events that took place through this fictional story. I never knew about the couriers and what they risked for their people. I also didn’t really know much about the resistance fighters within the ghettos.

I thought Nielsen did a great job at showing the Jews’ courage as they suffered at the hands of the Germans and their own countrymen, yet risked their lives to help each other. Many of the Jews knew that their resistance movements wouldn’t “win.” The goal was resistance and standing up to the Nazis and showing the world that they wouldn’t be silenced. Because of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, the Allies finally decided to stop turning a blind eye to what was happening to the Jews in Europe.