{"product_id":"a-rescuers-story-pastor-pierre-charles-toureille-in-vichy-france-hardcover","title":"A Rescuer's Story: Pastor Pierre-Charles Toureille in Vichy France - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTela Zasloff\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\"\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTela Zasloff is the author of \u003ci\u003eSaigon Dreaming: Recollections of Indochina Days\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in Williamstown, Massachusetts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 282\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.84 x 9.54 x 6.02 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 09, 2003\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51751422591264,"sku":"9780299175009","price":43.13,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/9f814aa1a5667c719e7dc4d4badde7e7.webp?v=1779972745","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/a-rescuers-story-pastor-pierre-charles-toureille-in-vichy-france-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}