A Good Place to Hide : How One French Village Saved Thousands of Lives in World War II
by Grose, Peter
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About This Item
Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2014. 1st edition. As New. octavo. stiff wrappers xxviii + 323pp., b/w plates, maps, notes, bibliog., The untold story of an isolated French community that banded together to offer sanctuary and shelter to over 3,500 Jews in the throes of WW2 It is the story of a pacifist Protestant pastor who broke laws and defied orders to protect the lives of total strangers. It is the story of an 18-year-old Jewish boy from Nice who forged 5,000 sets of false identity papers to save other Jews and French Resistance fighters from the Nazi concentration camps.
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- Bookseller
- Andrew Barnes Booksellers (AU)
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- Title
- A Good Place to Hide : How One French Village Saved Thousands of Lives in World War II
- Author
- Grose, Peter
- Book Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Publisher
- Allen & Unwin
- Place of Publication
- Sydney
- Date Published
- 2014
- Size
- octavo
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