A portrait of pacifists
Subtitle: Le Chambon, the Holocaust, and the lives of André and Magda Trocmé
By: Richard P. Unsworth ; with a foreword by Peter I. Rose
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Religion, theology, and the Holocaust
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Syracuse, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9780815609704
Subjects: Rescue; Jews; Pacifists; Religion; Underground movements; Biography; World War, 1939-1945; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust; History
Description: "This biography tells the story of André and Magda Trocmé, two individuals who made nonviolence a way of life. During World War II, the southern French town of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon and its surrounding villages became a center where Jews and others in flight from Nazi roundups could be hidden or led abroad, and where children with parents in concentration camps could be nurtured and educated. The Trocmés’ courage during World War II has been well documented in books and film, yet the full arc of their lives, the impulse that led them to devote themselves to nonviolence and their extensive work in the decades following the war, has never been compiled into a full-length biography..."--Publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Author's Note on the Memoirs; title: Remembering : June 1971; title: Life after June 5; title: Pacifism Discovered; title: Fathers and Sons; title: Out of Siberia; title: A Renegade Gentleman; title: The Military Misadventure; title: The Turnaround Year; title: Real Church, Actual Church; title: Le Chambon in the Thirties; title: Understanding Catastrophe : 1939-1941; title: The War Worsens : 1942-1943; title: Climax and Dénouement : 1943-1944; title: The Bridge from War to Peace; title: Versailles : The IFOR Years; title: Versailles : Rebuilding Peace; title: Geneva and Beyond; title: Appendix: A Brief Chronology of the Trocmés' Lives and Events.