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Years of Glory - Nelly Benatar and the Pursuit of Justice in Wartime North Africa (Hardcover)
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Years of Glory - Nelly Benatar and the Pursuit of Justice in Wartime North Africa (Hardcover)
Series: Worlding the Middle East
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The compelling true story of Nelly Benatar—a hero of the
anti-Fascist North African resistance and humanitarian who changed
the course of history for the "last million" escaping the Second
World War. When France fell to Hitler's armies in June 1940, a
flood of refugees fleeing Nazi terror quickly overwhelmed Europe's
borders and spilled across the Mediterranean to North Africa,
touching off a humanitarian crisis of dizzying proportions. Nelly
Benatar, a highly regarded Casablancan Jewish lawyer, quickly
claimed a role of rescuer and almost single-handedly organized a
sweeping program of wartime refugee relief. But for all her
remarkable achievements, Benatar's story has never been told. With
this book, Susan Gilson Miller introduces readers to a woman who
fought injustice as an anti-Fascist resistant, advocate for refugee
rights, liberator of Vichy-run forced labor camps, and legal
counselor to hundreds of Holocaust survivors. Miller crafts a
gripping biography that spins a tale like a Hollywood thriller, yet
finds its truth in archives gathered across Europe, North Africa,
Israel, and the United States and from Benatar's personal
collection of eighteen thousand documents now housed in the US
Holocaust Museum. Years of Glory offers a rich narrative and a
deeper understanding of the complex currents that shaped Jewish,
North African, and world history over the course of the Second
World War. The traumas of genocide, the struggle for anti-colonial
liberation, and the eventual Jewish exodus from Arab lands all take
on new meaning when reflected through the interstices of Benatar's
life. A courageous woman with a deep moral conscience and an iron
will, Nelly Benatar helped to lay the groundwork for crucial
postwar efforts to build a better world over Europe's ashes.
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