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A Rescuers Story: Pastor Pierre-Charles Toureille in Vichy France
Tela Zasloff
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Description for A Rescuers Story: Pastor Pierre-Charles Toureille in Vichy France
Hardcover. Inspired by his Huguenot heritage, French Protestant pastor Pierre 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. This is his story. Num Pages: 304 pages, 11 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJH; BG; HBJD; HBWQ; HRCC93; JPW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 567.
This is the story of 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 honoured by the Jewish organization Yad Vashem as one of the ""Righteous Among the Nations"". In telling Toureille's story, Tela Zasloff depicts the wide-ranging network of Protestant pastors and lay people in southern French villages who ... Read more
This is the story of 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 honoured by the Jewish organization Yad Vashem as one of the ""Righteous Among the Nations"". In telling Toureille's story, Tela Zasloff depicts the wide-ranging network of Protestant pastors and lay people in southern French villages who ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Condition
New
Place of Publication
Wisconsin, United States
ISBN
9780299175009
SKU
V9780299175009
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About Tela Zasloff
Tela Zasloff is the author of Saigon Dreaming; Recollections of Indochina Days. She lives in Williamstown, Massachusetts.
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