Pï¿½re Marie-Benoï¿½t and Jewish Rescue How a French Priest Together with Jewish Friends Saved Thousands During the Holocaust

Name: Pï¿½re Marie-Benoï¿½t and Jewish Rescue How a French Priest Together with Jewish Friends Saved Thousands During the Holocaust
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ISBN: 9780253008534

ISBN-10: 0253008530

ISBN-13: 9780253008534

Edition: 2013

Authors: Susan Zuccotti

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Susan Zuccotti narrates the life and work of Père Marie-Benoît, a courageous French Capuchin priest who risked everything to hide and save Jews in France and Italy during the Holocaust. Who was this extraordinary priest and how did he become adept at hiding Jews, providing them with false papers, and helping them to elude their persecutors? First from a monastery in Marseille and later in Rome, Père Benoît worked with Jewish co-conspirators to build remarkably effective Jewish-Christian rescue networks. Despite a cold reception from Pope Pius XII, who declined to assist in their efforts, they persisted in their clandestine activities until the Allies liberated Rome. To tell this remarkable…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 6/4/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 296
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Pierre Pï¿½teul: Family Heritage and Education



Pierre Pï¿½teul and the First World War



The Years between the Wars, 1919 to 1939



First Steps toward Jewish Rescue: Marseille, May 1940 to August 1942



With Joseph Bass in Marseille, August 1942 to June 1943



With Angelo Donati in Nice, November 1942 to June 1943



Pï¿½re Marie-Benoï¿½t and the Donati Plan, June to September 1943



Early Rescue in Rome, September and October 1943



With Stefan Schwamm in Rome: Securing Documents for Jewish Rescue



With Stefan Schwamm in Rome: Securing Funds for Jewish Rescue



After the Liberation of Rome



The Final Decades


Epilogue


Notes


Index