Saturday, February 28, 2009

In 1997, a film, "Woman on a Bicycle," based on her resistance work was released as part of the three-part drama,

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In 1997, a film, "Woman on a Bicycle," based on her resistance work was released as part of the three-part drama.


Here is also the letter from Archbishop Saliege of Toulouse:



PASTORAL LETTER FROM HIS EXCELLENCY MONSIGNOR SALIEGE, ARCHBISHOP OF
TOULOUSE
On "human dignity", read out from the pulpit on August 23, 1942
without comment.
My very dear Brothers,
There is a Christian morality, a
human morality, which lays down duties and recognizes rights. These rights and
duties stem from the nature of man; they come from God. One can violate them...
[but] no mortal has the power to do away with them.
Children, women, men,
fathers and mothers being treated like a lowly herd; members of a single family
being separated from each other and carted away to an unknown destination - it
is our age which was destined to see this dreadful sight.
Why is there no
longer any right of asylum in our churches?
Why are we the defeated?
Lord, have pity on us.
Our Lady, pray for France.
In our diocese,
moving scenes have occurred in the camps of Noe and Recebedou. The Jews are men;
the Jewesses are women. The foreigners are men and women. One may not do
anything one wishes to these men, to these women, to these fathers and mothers.
They are part of the human race; they are our brothers, like so many others. A
Christian cannot forget this.
France, beloved Fatherland; France, which
bears in the consciences of all your children the tradition of respect for human
dignity; chivalrous and generous France - I have no doubt that you are not
responsible for these errors.
Yours devotedly, dear Brothers,
(Signed)
Jules Gerard SALIEGE Archbishop of Toulouse
Source: AIU, CC-26, CDJC,
CCXVIII-72
Source: Yad
Vashem

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