A Rescuer's Story: Pastor Pierre-Charles Toureille in Vichy France

ISBN-13: 9780299175009 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 282 str.

Tela Zasloff

Opis

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 Huguenor 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.