A Nun A Convent And The German Occupation Of Belgium

Author : Rene Kollar
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498298931
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Nun, a Convent, and the German Occupation of Belgium written by Rene Kollar and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World War I has been recorded from many points of view: correspondent, poet, politician, and soldier. Comments from a nun living in a foreign country during the hostilities, however, can provide new insights. Isoline Jones was born in 1876 in England, and attended the boarding school at Tildonk, Belgium, run by the Ursuline sisters. She eventually converted to Roman Catholicism from Anglicanism and made her perpetual vows in 1907 as a member of the Ursuline community. Her religious name was Mother Marie Georgine. In August 1914, German forces invaded Belgium and occupied the convent and school, and her impressions of the war years are preserved in a series of letters written in the form of a diary. The siege of Antwerp, the plight of refugees, interaction with the German soldiers, and the hectic daily life of the convent were recorded by Mother Marie Georgine. Events occurring throughout Belgium did not escape her attention, and she did not avoid describing the brutality of war. Although sections of her diary have appeared in print, this is the first publication of Mother Marie Georgine's entire diary. Her impressions of World War I offer new perspectives on this tragic event.

Author : Sister Marie Antoine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Convent to Conflict written by Sister Marie Antoine and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sister Marie Antoine
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Convent to Conflict; Or, A Nun's Account of the Invasion of Belgium written by Sister Marie Antoine and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-11-03 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From Convent to Conflict; Or, A Nun's Account of the Invasion of Belgium" by Sister Marie Antoine. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author : Dennis Turner
Publisher : Cincinnati Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780999574751
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What Did You Do in the War, Sister? written by Dennis Turner and published by Cincinnati Book Publishers. This book was released on 2018-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Suzanne Vromen
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0199739056
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hidden Children of the Holocaust written by Suzanne Vromen and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2010-03-04 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the terrifying summer of 1942 in Belgium, when the Nazis began the brutal roundup of Jewish families, parents searched desperately for safe haven for their children. As Suzanne Vromen reveals in Hidden Children of the Holocaust , these children found sanctuary with other families and schools-but especially in Roman Catholic convents and orphanages. Vromen has interviewed not only those who were hidden as children, but also the Christian women who rescued them, and the nuns who gave the children shelter, all of whose voices are heard in this powerfully moving book. Indeed, here are numerous first-hand memoirs of life in a wartime convent-the secrecy, the humor, the admiration, the anger, the deprivation, the cruelty, and the kindness-all with the backdrop of the terror of the Nazi occupation. We read the stories of the women of the Resistance who risked their lives in placing Jewish children in the care of the Church, and of the Mothers Superior and nuns who sheltered these children and hid their identity from the authorities. Perhaps most riveting are the stories told by the children themselves-abruptly separated from distraught parents and given new names, the children were brought to the convents with a sense of urgency, sometimes under the cover of darkness. They were plunged into a new life, different from anything they had ever known, and expected to adapt seamlessly. Vromen shows that some adapted so well that they converted to Catholicism, at times to fit in amid the daily prayers and rituals, but often because the Church appealed to them. Vromen also examines their lives after the war, how they faced the devastating loss of parents to the Holocaust, struggled to regain their identities and sought to memorialize those who saved them.

Author : D M C
Publisher : Leonaur Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781782823773
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nuns & the Great War 1914-18-The Irish Nuns at Ypres by D. M. C. & from Convent to Conflict Or a Nun's Account of the Invasion of Belgium by Sister M written by D M C and published by Leonaur Limited. This book was released on 2014-09 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two accounts of faith and humanity The 'storm of war' is apt epithet for conflict. Mankind dominates the planet and his science and ingenuity can raise great structures, transform landscapes and traverse the skies and oceans. Yet against the most extreme forces of nature all this means nothing. So it is with warfare on a global scale for once it has been unleashed, its tidal wave envelopes not only armies and territories, but everything and everyone in it's path. Civilian populations are always those who suffer most and no way of life is spared or immune. This book-containing two different but complementary accounts-concerns the gentle ladies of the Church who were caught up in the brutality of the First World War and who were diverted from their lives of prayer by its suffering. The first account concerns the Irish nuns of the Royal Benedictine Abbey at Ypres-a city which, as all who know anything of the history of the Great War realise, was enveloped in the earliest weeks of war and remained a place of peril and destruction. The nuns endured great privations in order to stay in their historic home and be able to offer relief to all those in need. Theirs is a moving story of faith and determination and is an essential chapter in the history of the First World War. The second text here, by a nun of the Convent of the Daughters of Mary, Willebroeck, near Antwerp-which was also the home of a boarding school for young girls-is another vital first hand account telling of the terrible months of 1914 as the German army swept through Belgium. Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket; our hardbacks are cloth bound and feature gold foil lettering on their spines and fabric head and tail bands.

Author : M. Antonia
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780331647266
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Convent to Conflict written by M. Antonia and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from From Convent to Conflict: Or a Nun's Account of the Invasion of Belgium A merry group of Convent girls, in charge of Sister guardian, was seated in the shade of a huge old pear tree, discussing the joys and expectations of the approaching summer vacation. High are the walls en closing this ancient cloister, and many are the gay young hearts protected and devel oped within its shady precincts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Marie Antoine
Publisher : Palala Press
ISBN 13 : 9781358847837
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Convent to Conflict written by Marie Antoine and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-23 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Dennis J. Turner
Publisher : Ad Lib Publishers Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1802470271
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sisters of the Resistance written by Dennis J. Turner and published by Ad Lib Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2021-12-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the occupied territories, Catholic sisters were active in resistance to the Nazis Based on letters and documents – not seen for seventy years – written by the Catholic Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur during the Nazi occupation of Belgium, this book tells the remarkable story of these brave and faithful women, and how they resisted the German forces. In great detail, these letters document the lives of the sisters and convents under the Nazi regime, revealing the hardships of being bombed and constant hunger, and the executions of innocents. But they also tell the story of how these remarkably courageous women worked to help defeat the Nazis. Throughout the occupied territories, Catholic sisters were active members of the resistance. From running contraband to hiding resisters and Jews, and from spying for the allies to small acts of sabotage, these extraordinary women risked their lives to save others and to help bring an end to the war. This is a story that deserves to be told

Author : Brand Whitlock
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Belgium Under the German Occupation written by Brand Whitlock and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: