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Years of Glory: Nelly Benatar and the Pursuit of Justice in Wartime North Africa
Contributor(s): Miller, Susan Gilson (Author)

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ISBN: 1503628450     ISBN-13: 9781503628458
Publisher: Stanford University Press
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Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: November 2021
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BISAC Categories:
- History | Africa - North
- Biography & Autobiography | Social Activists
- History | Holocaust
Dewey: B
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.3" W x 9.1" L (1.05 lbs) 248 pages
 
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The compelling true story of Nelly Benatar--a hero of the anti-Fascist North African resistance and humanitarian who changed the course of history for the last million escaping the Second World War.

When France fell to Hitler's armies in June 1940, a flood of refugees fleeing Nazi terror quickly overwhelmed Europe's borders and spilled across the Mediterranean to North Africa, touching off a humanitarian crisis of dizzying proportions. Nelly Benatar, a highly regarded Casablancan Jewish lawyer, quickly claimed a role of rescuer and almost single-handedly organized a sweeping program of wartime refugee relief. But for all her remarkable achievements, Benatar's story has never been told.

With this book, Susan Gilson Miller introduces readers to a woman who fought injustice as an anti-Fascist resistant, advocate for refugee rights, liberator of Vichy-run forced labor camps, and legal counselor to hundreds of Holocaust survivors. Miller crafts a gripping biography that spins a tale like a Hollywood thriller, yet finds its truth in archives gathered across Europe, North Africa, Israel, and the United States and from Benatar's personal collection of eighteen thousand documents now housed in the US Holocaust Museum.

Years of Glory offers a rich narrative and a deeper understanding of the complex currents that shaped Jewish, North African, and world history over the course of the Second World War. The traumas of genocide, the struggle for anti-colonial liberation, and the eventual Jewish exodus from Arab lands all take on new meaning when reflected through the interstices of Benatar's life. A courageous woman with a deep moral conscience and an iron will, Nelly Benatar helped to lay the groundwork for crucial postwar efforts to build a better world over Europe's ashes.

 
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