"Lest innocent blood be shed in the land which the lord your god gives you an

inheritance, and the guilt of any bloodshed be upon you". These prophetic words

taken from the bible in Deuteronomy 19:1-13 are what the people of Le Chambon

acted upon to save Jews and resist evil. During the most terrible years of World

War II, when inhumanity and political insanity was manifested throughout the

world, and when the Nazis conquering of Europe seemed irreversible and inevitable,

a courageous uprising replete with morality and conscience took place in a small

Protestant town in Southern France known as Le Chambon. Pastor Andre Trocme

and his valiant supporters saved l lives in spite of the government of Vichy and the

threats made against anyone who resisted. Le Chambon's active but non violent

refusal to accept the indomitable spirit of evil and brute power emphasized by the

Nazis resulted in their rapid awakening to conscience, resistance and the necessity

The struggle in Le Chambon initiated upon and ended in the isolation of

peoples homes. Decisions that were often life and death tur

kitchens of these houses was a fight for the true liberation of their village. Secrecy

Germans were growing desperate. The Trocme's were always devoted to the truth

possessed a conscience without gaps." Andre was drawn to Daniel, most likely

time saved lives. Not many other areas in Europe had achieved such a persistent

scarcer than people even thinking about defeating the Nazis. In these early days of

human beings." Under the guidance of Andre Trocme, the villagers of Le Chambon

has forced him to defend the Jews. If he had been a soldier, he would have been

cared and loved for was taken to a concentration camp called Maidaneck in Poland.

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