Eirene (Organization)
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
EIRENE Collected Records
Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Eirene
Dates:
1960-1965
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
André Trocmé and Magda Trocmé Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-107
Abstract
André and Magda Trocmé are perhaps best known for their work in the small French town of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon where, during World War II, they inspired the villagers to help protect and sometimes to assist in the escape of Jews and other poltiical refugees. In 1938, André Trocmé, and his pacifist colleague Édouard Theis, founded L'Ecole Nouvelle Cévenol in Le Chambon, a Protestant, co-educational secondary school, with a curriculum of tolerance, honesty, and nonviolence. By 1942 the Germans...
Dates:
1919-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Algeria -- History -- Revolution, 1954-1962 -- Sources 1
- Antinuclear movement -- France -- History -- Sources 1
- France -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945 -- Sources 1
- Jews -- France -- History -- Sources 1
- Le Chambon-sur-Lignon (France) -- History -- Sources 1
- Morocco -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
- Pacifism -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History -- Sources 1
- Pacifists -- France -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Religious aspects -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
- Protestant churches -- Clergy -- History -- Sources 1
- Protestant churches -- France 1
- Protestant churches -- Switzerland 1
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Peace 1
- Voluntarism -- History -- Sources 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- France -- Sources 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue -- Sources 1 + ∧ less
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