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De l'étoile jaune à la résistance armée : 1942-1944 : combat pour la dignité humaine / Léon Nisand.

Title: De l'étoile jaune à la résistance armée : 1942-1944 : combat pour la dignité humaine / Léon Nisand.
Author: Nisand, Léon, 1923-
Publication: Paris : Safed, 2003.

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Description

195 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Summary

Memoirs of a Jew, born in 1923 in Strasbourg to an Orthodox family. In 1940 the family found refuge in Toulouse; two years later Nisand joined the resistance and was appointed by the chief rabbi as a chaplain for Jewish children hidden in Christian institutions. In 1943 he became chaplain of the Jews in the internment camps in southwestern France and in the Saint-Michel prison in Toulouse. He established contact between inmates and their families, as well as with Jewish welfare organizations and self-defense networks. Describes the conditions in the camps of Gurs and Noé, from which Nisand helped two men escape. After all the camp inmates were deported in May 1944, Nisand joined the armed Jewish resistance in Vabre, participating in the liberation of the garrison town of Castres. His family survived in hiding.

Series Statement

Collection "Les annales de la mémoire"

Uniform Title

Collection "Les annales de la mémoire"

Subject

Genre/Form

Personal narratives
Mémoires (Descripteur de forme)
Récits personnels.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-188) and index.

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

ISBN

2914585209
9782914585200

LCCN

2004371897

OCLC

53961531
SCSB-11734356

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library