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By M.J. Heisey,Nancy Heisey

ISBN-10: 1498508103

ISBN-13: 9781498508100

In 1945, Elsie C. Bechtel left her Ohio domestic for the tiny French commune of Lavercantière, the place for almost 3 years she cared for kids displaced through the ravages of conflict. Bechtel’s diary, photos, and letters domestic to her family members give you the important texts of this examine. From 1945 to 1948, she recorded her encounters with French society and her immersion within the spare fantastic thing about rural France. From her day-by-day paintings got here passionate musings at the emotional international of human interactions and evocative observations of the yank, Spanish, and French co-workers and kids with whom she lived.
As a volunteer with the Mennonite valuable Committee (MCC), Bechtel was once a part of the conflict aid efforts of pacifist Quakers and Anabaptists. In France among 1939 and 1948, MCC courses allotted garments, shared nutrition, and sheltered refugee little ones. The paintings begun within the some distance southwest of France yet, by the point Bechtel accomplished her provider in 1948, had moved to the Alsace zone, the place French Mennonites clustered.
Bechtel’s writings emerged from a spiritual context that incorporated a lot go back and forth, yet little mirrored image at the value of that shuttle. but, religiously prompted travel—an outdated culture in southwest France—shaped Bechtel’s existence. The authors contemplate her reviews when it comes to non secular pilgrimage and think of their very own pilgrimage to Lavercantière in 2006 for a reunion with a few of the humans marked through the wider attempt that Bechtel joined.
To comprehend Bechtel’s stories and prose, the authors tested archival resources on MCC’s paintings in France, accrued oral and written narratives of individuals, and researched different conflict aid efforts in Spain and France within the Nineteen Thirties and Forties. Drawing on those a number of contexts, the authors determine the complexity, but in addition the importance, of pilgrimage and humanitarian carrier as intercultural exchanges.

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