Chambon Foundation         Fondation Chambon (USA) & Amis du Chambon
 

     exploring the necessary and challenging lessons of hope
intertwined with the Holocaust's unavoidable lessons of despair

    à la recherche des leçons d'espoir  que nous lègue aussi la Shoah...

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	Chambon Foundation Varian Fry Institute	Amis du Chambon

Not a single Jew who came [to the area of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon] was turned away, or turned in. But it was not until decades later that the villagers spoke of what they had done -- and even then, only reluctantly.  "How could you call us 'good'?" they said. "We were doing what had to be done."  President Barack Obama, Yom Hashoah/Holocaust Remembrance Day, United States Capitor, April 23, 2009

Varian Fry

Emma Héritier Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, France

Peter Bergson

  Weapons of the Spirit   Les armes de l'esprit (1989-2010)

Yiddish: the Mother Tongue (1979-2010)

The Optimists—The Story of the Rescue of the Bulgarian Jews From the Holocaust (2002)

Not Idly By: Peter Bergson, America and the Holocaust  (2010)

And Crown Thy Good: Varian Fry in Marseille  (2011)

UPCOMING SCREENINGS

PHILADELPHIA: Monday, March 8, 9:30 am plenary session
40th Annual Scholars' Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches
Crisis & Credibility in the Jewish Christian World: Remembering Franklin H. Littell
Not Idly By—Peter Bergson, America and the Holocaust, with discussion with Pierre Sauvage
Pierre Sauvage will also be pleased to help honor the memory of a great man:
We Were There: Franklin Littell Confronts the Holocaust (video montage)

    NEW YORK CITY: Pierre Sauvage Retrospective, March 17-21, Museum of Jewish Heritage

Wednesday, March 17, 6:30 pm, Yiddish: The Mother Tongue (1979-2009, revised 30th anniversary edition), 56 min.  Order tickets online
Thursday, March 18, 6:30 pm, Weapons of the Spirit (1989-2010), 90 min.  Order tickets online
Sunday, March 21, 2:00 pm, excerpts from feature work-in-progress And Crown Thy Good: Varian Fry in Marseille (2011), followed by
Not Idly By—Peter Bergson, America and the Holocaust (2010), 40 min.  Order tickets online
Each screening will be followed by a discussion with Pierre Sauvage and special guests
At the closing event, Pierre Sauvage will be interviewed by Marie Brenner, author and Vanity Fair writer-at-large
 

LOS ANGELES: Monday, April 12, 7pm
Temple Israel of Hollywood Yom Hashoah/Holocaust Commemoration service
address by Pierre Sauvage and Not Idly By--Peter Bergson, America and the Holocaust