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Father Jacques.

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Overview

Summary: Features the online version of an exhibition hosted by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. from Apr. 11 to Oct. 14, 1997, that focused on Father Jacques de Jésus (1900-1945, born Lucien Bunel), a French Carmelite friar and headmaster of a boys' school, who hid several Jewish boys in his school in Avon, France, during the Jewish Holocaust (1939-1945). Discusses Father Jacques' imprisonment in several Nazi concentration camps and his subsequent death.
Format: Book
Locale: France
Other Authors/Editors: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Notes: World Wide Web resource

Physical Details

Language: English
External Link: http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/jacques/

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects: Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust--France--Biography. Biographies. Jacques,--père,--1900-1945.

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