How French Protestant networks worked to rescue Jews and other
refugees from the Nazis. 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 Huguenot
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 honored by the Jewish organization
Yad Vashem as one of the "Righteous Among the Nations." In telling
Toureille's story, Tela Zasloff depicts the wide-ranging network of
Protestant pastors and lay people in southern French villages who
participated in an aggressive rescue effort. She delves into their
motivations, including their heritage as members of a religious
minority. Toureille's rescue work under the Vichy regime, partly
official and then increasingly clandestine as the war progressed,
was a crucial part of the French non-violent "spiritual resistance"
against Nazism.
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