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Record Nr.

UNINA9910972007303321

Autore

Zasloff Tela

Titolo

A rescuer's story : Pastor Pierre-Charles Toureille in Vichy France / / Tela Zasloff

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Madison, : The University of Wisconsin Press, c2003

ISBN

9786612269011

9781282269019

1282269011

9780299175030

0299175030

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (286 p.)

Disciplina

940.53/1835/09448

Soggetti

Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust

World War, 1939-1945 - Jews - Rescue - France

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - France

France History German occupation, 1940-1945

France Ethnic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-261) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Pierre-Charles Toureille, 1900-1976 -- To be a Huguenot -- Pierre Toureille's early years and the ecumenical movement of the 1930's -- The war years, an introduction -- The war, 1939-1940 -- The war, 1941 -- The war, 1942 -- The war, 1943-1945 and after.

Sommario/riassunto

This is the story of a Holocaust rescuer, Pierre Toureille, a French Protestant pastor whose efforts resulted in the rescue of hundreds of refugees, most of them Jewish. Inspired by his Huguenot heritage, Pastor Toureille participated in international Protestant church efforts to combat Nazism during the 1930s and headed a major refugee aid organization in Vichy France during World War II. After the war, Pastor Toureille was honored by the Jewish organization Yad Vashem as one of the "Righteous Among the Nations." In telling Toureille's story, Tela Zasloff also depicts the wide-ranging network of Protestant pastors and lay people in southern French villages who participated in an aggressive



rescue effort. She delves into their motivations, including their heritage as members of a religious minority. Toureille's rescue work under the Vichy regime, partly official and then increasingly clandestine as the war progrressed. was a crucial part of the French non-violent "spiritual resistance" against Nazism.