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A
Rescuer's Story
Pastor
Pierre-Charles Toureille in Vichy France
Tela
Zasloff
How French Protestant networks worked
to rescue Jews and other refugees from the Nazis
This is the story of a Holocaust
rescuer, 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 also 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 progrressed. was a crucial part of the French non-violent
"spiritual resistance" against Nazism.
Tela Zasloff is the author of Saigon Dreaming: Recollections
of Indochina Days. She lives in Williamstown, Massachusetts.
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June
2003
304 pp. 11 b/w photos
6 x 9
ISBN 0-299-17500-6 Cloth $29.95t
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