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A good place to hide : how one French community saved thousands of lives during World War II / Peter Grose.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Pegasus Books LLC, 2015Edition: First Pegasus Books hardcover editionDescription: xxviii, [326] pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1605986925
  • 9781605986920
Other title:
  • How one French community saved thousands of lives during World War II
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Contents:
Preparation. Pastors ; War ; Camps -- Refuge. Jews ; Fun ; Rebellion -- Occupation. Fresh blood ; Forgers ; Arrest ; Switzerland ; Smugglers ; Germans -- Resistance. Violence ; Invasion -- Liberation. Guns ; Victory -- Whatever happened to...? -- Appendix 1. Huguenots -- Appendix 2. The weapons of the spirit.
Summary: This is the story of an isolated community in the upper reaches of the Loire Valley that conspired to save the lives of 3,500 Jews under the noses of the Germans and the soldiers of Vichy France. It is the story of a pacifist Protestant pastor who broke laws and defied orders to protect the lives of total strangers. It is the story of an eighteen-year-old Jewish boy from Nice who forged 5,000 sets of false identity papers to save other Jews and French Resistance fighters from the Nazi concentration camps. And it is the story of a community of good men and women who offered sanctuary, kindness, solidarity and hospitality to people in desperate need, knowing full well the consequences to themselves.
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Nobody asked questions, nobody demanded money. Villagers lied, covered up, procrastinated and concealed, but most importantly they welcomed.This is the story of an isolated community in the upper reaches of the Loire Valley that conspired to save the lives of 3500 Jews under the noses of the Germans and the soldiers of Vichy France. It is the story of a pacifist Protestant pastor who broke laws and defied orders to protect the lives of total strangers. It is the story of an eighteen-year-old Jewish boy from Nice who forged 5000 sets of false identity papers to save other Jews and French Resistance fighters from the Nazi concentration camps. And it is the story of a community of good men and women who offered sanctuary, kindness, solidarity and hospitality to people in desperate need, knowing full well the consequences to themselves.Powerful and richly told, A Good Place to Hide speaks to the goodness and courage of ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances.

Originally published: Sydney : Allen & Unwin, 2014.

Includes bibliographic references (pages 315-323) and index.

Preparation. Pastors ; War ; Camps -- Refuge. Jews ; Fun ; Rebellion -- Occupation. Fresh blood ; Forgers ; Arrest ; Switzerland ; Smugglers ; Germans -- Resistance. Violence ; Invasion -- Liberation. Guns ; Victory -- Whatever happened to...? -- Appendix 1. Huguenots -- Appendix 2. The weapons of the spirit.

This is the story of an isolated community in the upper reaches of the Loire Valley that conspired to save the lives of 3,500 Jews under the noses of the Germans and the soldiers of Vichy France. It is the story of a pacifist Protestant pastor who broke laws and defied orders to protect the lives of total strangers. It is the story of an eighteen-year-old Jewish boy from Nice who forged 5,000 sets of false identity papers to save other Jews and French Resistance fighters from the Nazi concentration camps. And it is the story of a community of good men and women who offered sanctuary, kindness, solidarity and hospitality to people in desperate need, knowing full well the consequences to themselves.

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