Le Chambon
By:Tarun R.
Le Chambon Overview
Le Chambon Facts
- It was started when one Jewish person came to Pastor Andre's home and asked for shelter.
- The people of Le Chambon helped provide shelter, food, and forged identification cards.
- They also immigrated Jewish people to Switzerland because at the time Switzerland was neutral at the time.
- This was all done by Pastor Andre Trocme, his wife Magda, and Pastor Eduoard Theis.
- Pastor Trocme worked a lot and found many supporters to help him rescue many Jews.
- All the people worked together to provide relief supplies for the 30,000 hostages at internment camps.
- At Le Chambon there were many diverse religions because many different people were being caught.
- Pastor Andre Trocme and his friends were put in jail for not telling anything about the Jewish people.
- Le Chambon was a major factor in the Holocaust because without that place of safety more Jews would have died.
Le Chambon Safety
- People at Le Chambon hid the Jewish people in hotels, private homes, public institutions and farms.
- Whenever police or army came to people of Le Chambon moved all the people to the mountainside to hide them.
- Life in a home there would be like a regular family and it would be a really friendly environment.
- Everyone in the village didn't tell where the Jewish people were to the police when they asked.
- In the city of Le Chambon everybody knew each other and had a friendly relationship with everybody.
- As many people that have survived and lived at Le Chambon said that the people their didn't even care they were there.
Major Helpers at Le Chambon
Pastor Andre Trocme
Andre Trocme and Magda Trocme
Pastor Eduoard Theis
Works Cited
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