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Author Hallie, Philip P. (Philip Paul)

Title Lest innocent blood be shed : the story of the village of Le Chambon and how goodness happened there / Philip P. Hallie ; [with a new foreword by the author].

Publication Info. New York : HarperPerennial, 1994.

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 Axe Special Collections Eucalyptus  944.813 H155l 1994    ---  Lib Use Only
Edition 1st HarperPerennial ed.
Description xxi, 303 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 21 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Note Originally published: New York : Harper & Row, ©1979. With new introd.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-297) and index.
Contents 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.
Summary "Le Chambon's villagers and their clergy organized to save thousands of Jewish children and adults from certain death."
Subject Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) (OCoLC)fst00958866
Jews rescue (1939-1945 : World War) (OCoLC)fst01710189
World War (1939-1945) (OCoLC)fst01180924
Jews -- France -- Le Chambon-sur-Lignon.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue -- France -- Le Chambon-sur-Lignon.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- France.
Le Chambon-sur-Lignon (France) -- Ethnic relations.
Ethnic relations. (OCoLC)fst00916005
Jews. (OCoLC)fst00983135
France. (OCoLC)fst01204289
France -- Le Chambon-sur-Lignon. (OCoLC)fst01207045
Jews -- France.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue.
Chronological Term 1939 - 1945
ISBN 0060925175 (pbk.)
9780060925178 (pbk.)

 
    
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