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Relief work as pilgrimage : "Mademoiselle Miss Elsie" in Southern France, 1945-1948
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In 1945, Elsie C. Bechtel left her Ohio home for the tiny French commune of Lavercantière, where for nearly three years she cared for children displaced by the ravages of war. This book, based her ...
In 1945, Elsie C. Bechtel left her Ohio home for the tiny French commune of Lavercantière, where for nearly three years she cared for children displaced by the ravages of war. This book, based her diary, oral testimony, and archival research, draws on these various contexts to establish the complexity and significance of pilgrimage and humanitarian service as intercultural exchanges.
Details
- Creator
- M.J. Heisey and Nancy R. Heisey
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Lanham [Maryland] : Lexington Books, [2015]
- ©2015
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (209 p.)
- ISBNs
- 9781498508117, 1498508111, 1498508103
- OCLC
- ocn916449796
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- English
- Principal characters -- Elsie Bechtel : pilgrimage and Anabaptist relief work -- Elsie Bechtel's writings : waiting and beginnings -- The world and the Lavercantière Refuge -- Elsie Bechtel's writings : Lavercantière as muse -- Travels to Lavercantière, 2006-2007
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Civilian relief -- France -- Lavercantière.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- France -- Lavercantière.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Religious aspects.
- Anabaptists -- Ohio -- Biography.
- Americans -- France -- Lavercantière -- Biography.
- Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages -- France -- Lavercantière -- History -- 20th century.
- War relief -- France -- Lavercantière -- History -- 20th century.
- Lavercantière (France) -- History -- 20th century.
- Brethren in Christ Church -- Biography.
- Bechtel, Elsie, 1913-2011.