Lest innocent blood be shed : the story of the village of Le Chambon and how goodness happened there
(1994, original release: 1979)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
944.813/HALLIE,P
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PUBLISHED
New York : HarperPerennial, 1994
EDITION
First HarperPerennial edition
DESCRIPTION
xxi, 303 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780060925178, 0060925175, 9780060925178
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Originally published: New York : Harper & Row, ©1979. With new introduction
Persons : The arrest of the leaders -- Andre Trocme, the soul of Le Chambon -- Beginnings-1934-1942 : The Presbytery and the flag -- The bell and the empty buses -- Help-1940-1944 : Burned shoes and the Quakers -- The spirit of the Presbytery -- The inspired amateurs -- Consequences-1943-1944 : Daniel Trocme, a conscience without gaps -- Flight from the gestapo -- The death of an eccentric -- The astonishing weeks -- The ethics of life and death : How goodness happened here
"Le Chambon's villagers and their clergy organized to save thousands of Jewish children and adults from certain death."