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#403133 in Books Caroline Moorehead 2015-10-27 2015-10-27Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 8.00 x .90 x 5.31l; .0 #File Name: 0062202480400 pagesVillage of Secrets Defying the Nazis in Vichy France The Resistance Trilogy Book 2
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207 of 217 people found the following review helpful. SCANDALBy Max K. LiebmannThis book is a scandal; it pretends to be a chronicle of history; which it is emphatically NOT. contains so many errors that it should not have been published at all in its present form.We Hanne (Hirsch) and Max Liebmann are featured in this book as survivors of the only deportation from Germany to France ; prisoners of Camp de Gurs French internment camp as well as having been sheltered in Le Chambon sur Lignon. As we have told the publisher and author; we protest the misleading information about ourselves as well as our families and the general misinformation about this particular time period. People not familiar with the event of 1933 - 1945 will get a totally wrong impression. That such a book should even be considered for a literary book award in Britain is totally ludicrous.Just to cite a few of the many errors :Chapter 2; Moorehead states that in Camp de Gurs we ate dogs; cats and rats. There was not a single dog or cat in camp. Plenty of rats; but nobody ate them.Throughout the book Moorehead maligns Pasteur Trocme; a person of the highest moral and ethical integrity. recognized by Yad Vashem as "Righteous Gentile" In addition she denounces Prof. Hallie who with his book "Lest innocent blood be shed" put le Chambon on the map for the worldHanne and Max Liebmann .166 of 174 people found the following review helpful. Astonishingly inaccurateBy Pierre SauvageMy parents were among the Jews who found shelter in the area of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon; France; during the Holocaust--the subject of this astonishingly inaccurate book--and I had the good fortune to be born there at that time. I thus care deeply about the remarkable rescue mission that profoundly affected my life.It is thus dismaying that this account of those events preposterously asserts that the French Protestant (Huguenot) dimension of the rescue effort has been inflated into a myth; that the village's remarkable pastor can be plausibly charged with being a self-aggrandizing pathological liar; that nonviolence was only a small part of the story; that unnamed atheists and agnostics played an equal role in providing shelter; that indeed the religious beliefs of the rescuers deserve only passing mention... Incidentally; among the many dozens of misrepresentations and errors in this sloppy book are the very photograph on the cover: the reader has no way of knowing that the "Village of Secrets" portrayed is not Le Chambon!Furthermore; in the author's eagerness to be able to claim that she is; at last; setting "the record straight" and describing for the first time "what actually took place" in and around Le Chambon; she feels it necessary to go out of her way to malign the late Philip Hallie and me--who have told the story before her. In my case; she goes so far as to fabricate the utterly false allegation that key figures in Le Chambon's wartime events branded my well-received feature documentary on the subject; "Weapons of the Spirit;" as nothing less than a "mutilation of historical truth." This is very mean-spirited fiction indeed!For more information; please see: [...]Pierre SauvagePresident; Chambon Foundation118 of 125 people found the following review helpful. A total disappointment.By Nelly Trocme HewettCaroline Moorehead is an excellent writer whose book "A train in Winter" was highly praised. I read it with great interest.However with her new book "Village of Secrets"; Moorehead seriously damages her reputation as a reliable writer. To start with; her title should have been "Villages of Secrets"!Where is her historical scholarship? Who helped her with fact-checking for even simple details like the correct spelling of people she mentions? Why didn't she consult the internet? Her text is loaded with egregious errors and personal sarcastic judgments. Her distortions go from some historical facts to the most trivial little stories.Yes; Moorehead writes very well and her research is extensive judging by the unusually large list of books in her bibliography...yet her errors are the proof she did not read them all; including the most recent and important ones. Yes; she honors deserving people like Pastor Daniel Curtet or Simone Mairesse. But these people were recognized years ago! Strangely enough; one wonders whether she has a special contact with the world of the dead when she thanks for their interview Leon Eyraud who died in 1953 and Madame Marguerite Roussel who passed in 1996. There are always several sides to a story. It is regrettable and sad that Moorehead fell under the spell of a disgruntled crowd and some jealous people. The 12 Plateau Vivairais-Lignon villages and all the different types of rescuers; the nonviolent resistance and the armed resistance have not been forgotten in the small WWII museum that opened in LE Chambon - sur - Lignon in 2013. Yet this disgruntled group refused to join the project and did everything possible to kill it.. They even convinced Moorehead that the very capable Mayor Eliane WAuquiez-Motte who raised the funds and organized the professional planning deserved to be demeaned!You don't have to read Village of Secrets: go straight to the Foreword and especially the Afterword to get a general impression of the tone of the book. If Moorehead is absolutely right in praising important people such as Charles Guillon; Oscar Rozowsky and Marc Boegner ( all recognized years ago); she did not need to trash other important people such as the ethicist ( and not the historian) Philip Hallie who in 1979 put Le Chambon -sur-Lignon on the map; or the excellent documentary producer Pierre Sauvage who describes his personal story and the reason why he was allowed to live as a Jewish baby born during the Holocaust; and finally two of the several idealists and catalists of the effective nonviolent resistance; Pastors Edouard Theis and Andre Trocme.I ought to know: I am Trocme's daughter and I grew up In Le Chambon during WW II.I also had Caroline Moorehead as my house guest in the United States and I gladly let her interview me. She was friendly.I now understand better why total silence followed her visit...
