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[A Portrait of Pacifists: Le Chambon, the Holocaust and the Lives of Andre and Magda Trocme] (By: Richard P. Unsworth) [published: July, 2012] Hardcover – 1 January 2012

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Syracuse University Press (1 January 2012)
Language ‏ : ‎ English

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Gregory A. Johnson

How would you fight the Nazis?

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Well-written and fascinating look at two people changing their world. This book presents a perspective on the world that is almost entirely ignored nowadays, a perspective that might yet save us all. This is also a great adventure yarn: standing up to the Nazis armed with nothing but truth!

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A page turner of a biography

Reviewed in the United States on 8 August 2012

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A remarkable biography: a vivid portrait of France social landscape between the two World Wars and after. The repercussion of the social and political conflicts of the past century are presented through the life of a Pacifist Protestant Pastor and his wife who managed to save countless of Jewish children with the help of his congregation and a whole network of Resistents in spite of the Gestapo and the collaborator Vichy government. Under his leadership it was an entire region that got involved in this rescue mission. After the war Pasteur Trocme and his wife Magda were tirelessly active in Reconciliation and Peace organizations. The agile blend of well chosen anecdotes with sharp and subtle analysis of the circumstances and causes of the choice of these remarkable people whose names are inscribed in the Yad Vashem Memorial in Jerusalem make this book instructive and inspiring.

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Peter Grose

At last, a balanced story

Reviewed in the United States on 13 June 2012

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The story of the Huguenot pastor André Trocmé, his wife Magda, and the rescue of Jews in a cluster of 12 villages on the Plateau-Vivarais Lignon in the Haute-Loire department of France during World War 2, has been told before, most notably in Pierre Sauvage's award winning documentary Weapons Of The Spirit, and in Philip Hallie's 1979 book Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed. It has never been told in as balanced a way as in this new biography by Richard Unsworth.

Andre Trocme was that rarest of all human beings, an intellectual with a strong practical streak. He wasn't one simply to ask: "What do we all think?" He would quickly move on to "What are we going to do?" He preached pacifism in France when it was illegal to do so. From 1942 to 1944 he was the leading figure in a program to conceal Jews from the Vichy authorities and later the German occupiers. At the time this was not only illegal but invited arrest, deportation and death. He was brave, wilful, impulsive, charismatic and self-assured. However without his wife Magda, the ever practical networker, sceptic, organizer and manager, his high ideals might never have been so effectively realized.

The importance of this book is that it places the Trocmes accurately in context. Previous authors have tended to portray the Trocmes as the sole force for good on the Plateau. But Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, where Trocme was pastor, was but one of 12 villages involved in the rescue, and Andre Trocme was but one of at least a dozen clergymen, mostly Protestant but including some Catholics, who organized the shelter of Jews. He was indisputably the most important figure, but he did not act alone. The heroes and heroines surely included the extraordinary people of the Plateau, who risked everything by offering their spare rooms and barns for the rescue project. They asked for no reward beyond the knowledge that they had made the morally correct decision. Andre Trocme led by providing inspiration: literally thousands of ordinary people joined him in taking the ultimate risk. It is to Richard Unsworth's great credit that he gets all this right: Andre and Magda Trocme are well served by this book, but so are the people of the Plateau.

A fine book. Read it.

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Marilyn

Loved this book.

Reviewed in the United States on 6 August 2013

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A remarkable study on courage and faith. What these ordinary French farmers did was amazing. An excellent study in faith and living one's faith.

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