How One Isolated French Town Saved 3,500 Jews during WWII
A pacifist Protestant pastor who broke laws and defied orders to protect the lives of total strangers. An eighteen-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. A community of good men and women who offered sanctuary, kindness, solidarity and hospitality to people in desperate need, knowing full well the consequences to themselves. Peter Grose illustrates the isolated community in the upper reaches of the Loire Valley that conspired to save the lives of 3,500 Jews under the noses of the Germans and the soldiers of Vichy France during World War II in A Good Place to Hide: How One French Community Saved Thousands of Lives in World War II.
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