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Stone 62

LE CHAMBON-SUR-LIGNON

 INSPIRED BY PASTOR ANDRE TROCME AND GUIDED
BY HIS WIFE MAGDA, THE LARGELY PROTESTANT
POPULATION OF THIS SOUTHERN FRENCH TOWN
BELIEVED THAT THE CONCEALMENT OF JEWS FACING
GERMAN DEPORTATION WAS A CHRISTIAN DUTY. SOME
JEWS WERE EVEN SMUGGLED INTO SWITZERLAND
WITH THE AID OF PASTOR EDOUARD THEIS / AND OTHERS.

DANIEL TROCME, A COUSIN OF ANDRE, WAS DIRECTOR
OF A CHILDREN’S HOME IN LE CHAMBON - - MAISON
DES ROCHES - - WHERE JEWS WERE HIDDEN. HE
PERISHED IN BUCHENWALD FOR HIS EFFORTS TO
SAVE JEWISH CHILDREN. SOME 3,000 – 5,000
JEWS FOUND UNIQUE SHELTER IN LE CHAMBON AND
ITS ENVIRONS BETWEEN 1941 AND 1944.