committed to
exploring the necessary lessons of hope
intertwined with the Holocaust's unavoidable lessons of despair
Varian
Fry Institute · Chambon
Institute
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And Crown Thy Good
(2008) |
Weapons of the Spirit |
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In
1940-41, in Marseille, France, a New York
intellectual ran the most successful private American rescue operation
of World War II, as will be recounted in Pierre Sauvage's upcoming documentary
And Crown Thy Good. |
In
1940-44, in the area of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, France, some 5,000
Jews were sheltered from the Nazis by 5,000 Christians, as recounted
in Pierre Sauvage's 1989 documentary Weapons
of the Spirit. |
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Varian Fry Institute: America
and the Holocaust
Le Chambon's
Challenge To France Today!
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Long article on Le Chambon,
A Haven From Hitler,
in England's widely-read Sunday Times Magazine, June 4, 2006
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Rev. Waitstill
Sharp and Martha Sharp, husband and wife, joined Varian Fry in
June 2006 as American Righteous Among the Nations. The Sharps'
ties to Le Chambon are significant. After visiting there during
the summer of 1940, Martha Sharp wrote that "the spirit" among
Protestants in Le Chambon and in Nîmes "can bring about the regeneration
of France, if it can be sustained." It was she who escorted six of
Le Chambon pastor Edouard Theis' daughters to the U.S. at that time.
(As it happens, Mildred Theis, the Ohio-born wife of the pastor, was
perhaps the first American to receive, along with her husband, the
honors from Israel's Yad Vashem, although she had given up her American
citizenship by then.)
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Virginia Hall, American heroine of the French
Resistance, who worked in the area of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon and is
the subject of a biography by Judith Pearson,
Wolves
at the Door, was honored in
the U.S.: Story
of an anti-Nazi Spy.
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French Le Chambon news
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the memorable Chambon Foundation summer
2004 in Le Chambon!
President Chirac of France
visits Le Chambon-sur-Lignon (left), the earlier
"Liberation Reunion" /
Journées Mémoires du Plateau in the
village
(center and right, with Mayor Francis Valla, left, and Pierre Sauvage
inaugurating the gathering they jointly sponsored
Left and center left,
Le Chambon-sur-Lignon,
with farmhouse in foreground that was purchased in the hope that it could become
the
Chambon Museum.
Right and certer right, local headquarters
till summer 2005 of Chambon Foundation in the heart of the village,
where allied tanks rumbled through in September 1944.
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