Resilience and Compassion: Surviving the Holocaust by Pruitt, France J.

Resilience and Compassion: Surviving the Holocaust (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781981921331)

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Resilience and Compassion: Surviving the Holocaust by Pruitt, France J.

Resilience and Compassion: Surviving the Holocaust

$20.00
Resilience and Compassion: Surviving the Holocaust by Pruitt, France J.

Resilience and Compassion: Surviving the Holocaust

$20.00
Format: Paperback
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Born into an ethnically Jewish family in Belgium, Dr. France Pruitt and her family had to flee to the South of France during WW II. After the war, the family moved to the U.S., where France completed her BA at Swarthmore College and her MA at SUNY at Buffalo. She also has a doctorate from La Sorbonne in Paris. Using her experiences and education, she opened international education offices in four universities. She writes about her family's often harrowing experiences as Jewish refugees from Nazism in the French mountains. This personal story is interwoven with well-informed accounts of the rise of Nazism, the German invasion and occupation of France, the nature of the local people who taught the family how to farm and kept their secret from the authorities, and the French Resistance Movement which saved their lives by finding families to hide them once the German army took over the south of France.

Author: France J. Pruitt
ISBN-10: 1981921338
ISBN-13: 9781981921331
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 12/20/2017
Pages: 196
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.62lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.42d
By France J. Pruitt
By France J. Pruitt
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After growing up in war-torn Europe, where her immediate family was hidden by the kind and generous hearted people from the Loz鑽e region of the South of France, Dr. France J. Pruitt immigrated to the US at age 16, hardly speaking any English. Dr. Pruitt received her Bachelor's Degree from Swarthmore College, her Master of Arts degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo, and her doctorate from L'Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, part of the Sorbonne in Paris. She had a career in the United States in International Education and even though retired, continues to work on a volunteer basis in her professional group, NAFSA, the Association of International Educators. She has 3 sons and 4 granddaughters and continues also to be active in Rotary and her Quaker faith.

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