Relief Work as Pilgrimage: "Mademoiselle Miss Elsie" in Southern France, 1945-1948

by M.J. Heisey and Nancy Heisey

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In 1945, Elsie C. Bechtel left her Ohio home for the tiny French commune of Lavercanti re, 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.

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1498508103

ISBN13:9781498508100

Release Date:August 2015

Publisher:Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury

Length:208 Pages

Weight:1.00 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 5.9" x 9.1"

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Biographical Biographies Biographies & History Biography & History History

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Relief Work as Pilgrimage: "Mademoiselle Miss Elsie" in Southern France, 1945-1948

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