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).

In this volume, Festo Mkenda, SJ, a leading voice in studies on the Society of Jesus in Africa, turns his attention to the little-known history of the Jesuit presence in modern Ethiopia. Marking the recent seventy-fifth anniversary of the arrival of a small group of Canadian Jesuits in 1945—the first sustained presence in over three hundred years—the book outlines the origins and modern history of the Jesuits in Ethiopia. Bringing to life their story in vivid detail, it will be of interest both inside Ethiopia and its diaspora, as well as to all of those interested in Africa and the Church today.