Years of Glory - Nelly Benatar and the Pursuit of Justice in Wartime North Africa (Miller Susan Gilson)(Pevná vazba)

The compelling true story of Nelly Benatar--a hero of the anti-Fascist North African resistance and humanitarian who changed the course of history for the last million escaping the Second World War. When France fell to Hitler's armies in June 1940, a flood of refugees fleeing Nazi terror quickly overwhelmed Europe's borders and spilled across the Mediterranean to North Africa, touching off a humanitarian crisis of dizzying proportions. Nelly Benatar, a highly regarded Casablancan Jewish lawyer, quickly claimed a role of rescuer and almost single-handedly organized a sweeping program of wartime refugee relief. But for all her remarkable achievements, Benatar's story has never been told. With this book, Susan Gilson Miller introduces readers to a woman who fought injustice as an anti-Fascist resistant, advocate for refugee rights, liberator of Vichy-run forced
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