Title: Lieu de mémoire au Chambon-Lignon
Description: The story of a Nazi-occupied Protestant community of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon in south-central France, and the plateau of Vivarais-Lignon, where thousands of Jewish children were welcomed, hidden and saved from the Holocaust during the Second World War. Includes a brief history of the Protestant reformation in the region.
Subjects: Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust, Biography, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), World War, 1939-1945, Jews, Rescue, Underground movements, Protestants, History
Places: France, Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, Le Chambon-sur-Lignon (France), Le Chambon-sur-Lignon Region (France)