Madeleine Barot

Notes: "[By] Andre Jacques".; " Original title: 'Madeleine Barot: une indomptable energie'. Les Editions du Cerf, Paris et Labor et Fides, Geneve, 1989". -- verso of t.-p.; "Translated from the French by Pat and Bill Nottingham". -- verso of t.-p.; "As general secretary of CIMADE, the French ecumenical committee to aid displaced people, Madeleine Barot worked with tireless courage in internment camps, throughout occupied France during the Second World War ... that was only a chapter of an ecumenical career that would expand after the war to reconciliation with Germany, resettlement of war refugees and then global ecumenical involvement with the WCC's department of youth, women and development. ... This intriguing account of her life is based on a series of interviews, of which the excerpts here convey the verve and insights of unique figure in twentieth-century ecumenism". -- back cover.; Contents: Preface: Letter to Madeleine / Andre Jacques -- Meeting with Madeleine -- Rising Drama -- The Birth of CIMADE -- Internment -- Solidarity and Resistance --- Ecumenical Commitment -- Resistance and Liberation -- Reconstruction and Reconciliation -- The Postwar Period -- Objective: Equality of Men and Women -- The Challenge of Development and Justice -- Return to France -- Three Sketches.

Subjects: Barot, Madeleine, 1909-1995; Ecumenists - Biography; World Council of Churches - History - 20th century; Comité inter-mouvements auprès des évacués (CIMADE) - History