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Author Henry, Patrick (Patrick Gerard)

Title We only know men : the rescue of Jews in France during the Holocaust / Patrick Henry
Published Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 192 pages) : illustrations
Series Book collections on Project MUSE
Contents Rescuing Jews in the south of France -- Daniel's choice -- Madeleine Dreyfus : righteous Jew -- Albert Camus' The plague -- The rescuers of Jews
Summary "Patrick Henry, working with more than one thousand unpublished autobiographical pages written by key rescuers and with documents, letters, and interviews never before available, reconsiders the Holocaust rescue of Jews on the plateau Vivarias-Lingon from 1939 to 1944. Henry carefully examines the general research of the last quarter century on rescue in that area of France, illuminating in detail the strengths and weaknesses of Philip Hallie's groundbreaking study Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed (1979) as they appear sixty years after the end of World War II." "In highlighting the involvement of Catholics, Protestants, and Jews in the rescue mission, the book looks closely at the lives and work of two rescuers on the plateau: a young Protestant man, Daniel Trocme, and a Jewish mother of three, Madeleine Dreyfus, both of whom were arrested and deported. Daniel died in the gas chamber at Maidanek; Madeleine survived Bergen-Belsen. Madeleine provides an example of a Jewish rescuer of Jews and raises the issues of so-called Jewish passivity during the Holocaust and the status of "Righteous Jews."" "Henry brings together his own findings and those of others who have studied the rescuers throughout Europe in order to understand rescuer motivation and to show incontrovertibly why it is important not only to know about the victims and perpetrators of the Nazi genocide but to study and teach more widely about the rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-179) and index
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Subject Camus, Albert, 1913-1960. Peste
SUBJECT Camus, Albert, 1913-1960. Peste. nli
Peste (Camus, Albert) fast
Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue -- France -- Le Chambon-sur-Lignon Region
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- France -- Le Chambon-sur-Lignon Region -- Biography
World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue -- Europe
HISTORY -- Holocaust.
Judenvernichtung
Rettung
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Rescue -- France -- Le Chambon-sur-Lignon Region.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- France -- Le Chambon-sur-Lignon Region -- Biography.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Rescue -- Europe.
France
Europe
Frankreich
Genre/Form collective biographies.
Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2006026499
ISBN 9780813216935
0813216931
0813226139
9780813226132