The Second World War through Jesuit Archives

Description

The Second World War changed the world’s economic, political and social order. It was also a humanitarian disaster on a scale never before seen in world history. How did the Jesuits in Europe endure this global conflict? And what Jesuit archives can be explored for the years 1939–1945? For the first time, archivists from the Jesuit Provinces of Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean have collaborated to make the Jesuit experience of the Second World War accessible through an archival lens.

The volume showcases the wartime archival collections from Britain, Czechia,
France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lebanon, the Low Countries, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, and the world headquarters of Jesuit operations in Rome.

Richly illustrated with historical introductions for each chapter, it will be of interest to the general reader and the specialist alike.

Edited by Damien Burke, Rebecca Somerset, and Christian Taoutel, the volume is the result of a project coordinated by the Roman Jesuit Archive (ARSI), in collaboration with the Province Archives of the Jesuit Conference of European Provinces (JCEP).