By Kevin Seabrooke

The founder of The Ninth Candle, a Chicago-based organization focused on Holocaust education and fighting antisemitism, Berryman was inspired to collect these stories of resistance after researching the life of his grandfather Sam Mindel. Prompted by an email from a distant relative, Berryman found out that “more than a dozen of my grandfather’s relatives were murdered in the Holocaust.” They had been among some 1,500 Jews working as forced farm labor near Anyksciai, Lithuania, in 1941, who were shot to death by Nazis and Lithuanian collaborators.

Resisting Nazism offers 12 chapters stories: from the “Edelweiss Pirates,” working-class German teens rebelling by refusing to join the Hitler Youth, to Sebastian Haffner, a lawyer who fled Germany and wrote Germany: Jekyll and Hyde in 1940 to help the Allies understand Hitler and the Nazis.

Resisting Nazism: True Stories of Resistance to the World’s Most Dangerous Ideology, from 1920 to the Present (Luke Berryman, Bloomsbury Academic, New York, NY, 296 pp., 2026 $27 HC)

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