A Portrait of Pacifists: Le Chambon, the Holocaust, and the Lives of André and Magda Trocmé

by Richard P. Unsworth

Book Overview

This biography tells the story of Andr and Magda Trocm , two individuals who made nonviolence a way of life. During World War II, the southern French town of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon and its surrounding villages became a center where Jews and others in flight from Nazi roundups could be hidden or led abroad, and where children with parents in concentration camps could be nurtured and educated. The Trocm s' courage during World War II has been well...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815609701
• ISBN13: 9780815609704
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 358 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"