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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460587603321

Autore

Heisey M. J (Mary Jane), <1955->

Titolo

Relief work as pilgrimage : "Mademoiselle Miss Elsie" in Southern France, 1945-1948 / / M.J. Heisey and Nancy R. Heisey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham [Maryland] : , : Lexington Books, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

1-4985-0811-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (209 p.)

Disciplina

940.54/77944733

B

Soggetti

World War, 1939-1945 - Civilian relief - France - Lavercantière

World War, 1939-1945 - France - Lavercantière

World War, 1939-1945 - Religious aspects

Anabaptists - Ohio

Americans - France - Lavercantière

Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages - France - Lavercantière - History - 20th century

War relief - France - Lavercantière - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Lavercantière (France) History 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Principal characters -- Elsie Bechtel : pilgrimage and Anabaptist relief work -- Elsie Bechtel's writings : waiting and beginnings -- The world and the Lavercantière Refuge -- Elsie Bechtel's writings : Lavercantière as muse -- Travels to Lavercantière, 2006-2007.

Sommario/riassunto

In 1945, Elsie C. Bechtel left her Ohio home for the tiny French commune of Lavercantière, where for nearly three years she cared for children displaced by the ravages of war. This book, based her diary, oral testimony, and archival research, draws on these various contexts to establish the complexity and significance of pilgrimage and humanitarian service as intercultural exchanges.