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We Only Know Men - The Rescue of Jews in France during the Holocaust (Paperback)
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We Only Know Men - The Rescue of Jews in France during the Holocaust (Paperback)
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Patrick Henry, working with more than one thousand unpublished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 of Vivarais-Lignon between
the years 1939 and 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. Also analyzed is Albert Camus'
chronicle, La Peste, written in large part during the fifteen
months he spent in a hamlet just outside the village of Le
Chambon-sur-Lignon from August 1942 until late 1943. As an
allegorical mirror, the text reflects both the violent and
non-violent resistance taking place when and where Camus composed
his narrative. Finally, 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.
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