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"As a Jew born in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon during World War II, filmmaker Pierre Sauvage relates the story of how the village successfully shielded 5,000 Jews from the Nazis."
"As a Jew born in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon during World War II, filmmaker Pierre Sauvage relates the story of how the village successfully shielded 5,000 Jews from the Nazis."@en
"Le Chambon-sur-Lignon was a tiny Protestant farming village in the mountains of south-central France. Defying the Nazis and the French government that was collaborating with the Nazis, the villagers of the area of Le Chambon provided a safe haven throughout the war for whoever knocked on their door. Most of the villagers were proud descendants of the Huguenots, first Protestants in Catholic France. They remembered their own history of persecution, and it mattered to them. They also read the Bible, and tried to heed the admonition to love your neighbor as yourself. Henri Héritier in Weapons of the Spirit "The responsibility of Christians," their pastor, André Trocmé, had reminded them the day after France surrendered to Nazi Germany, "is to resist the violence that will be brought to bear on their consciences through the weapons of the spirit." There were many other uncelebrated individual and collective acts of goodwill and righteousness throughout the dark war years. But nowhere else did a persistent and successful moral consensus develop on a scale approaching what happened in the area of Le Chambon. Released theatrically in 1989 in over 50 major markets, selected for over 20 film festivals, the highly acclaimed feature documentary Weapons of the Spirit was the recipient of many awards, including the prestigious DuPont-Columbia University Award in Broadcast Journalism. Weapons of the Spirit was produced by the nonprofit Chambon Foundation, founded by Pierre Sauvage, whose mission is to explore and communicate, especially on film, such necessary lessons of hope intertwined with the Holocaust's unavoidable lessons of despair."@en
"The story of a village in France, Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, that took in and sheltered 5000 Jews from Nazis, as told by Jewish filmmaker, Sauvage, who was himself born and protected in that defiantly peaceful community."@en
"The story of a village in France, Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, that took in and sheltered 5000 Jews from Nazis, as told by Jewish filmmaker, Sauvage, who was himself born and protected in that defiantly peaceful community."
"The story of a village in France, Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, that took in and sheltered 5000 Jews from Nazis, as told by Jewish filmmaker, Sauvage, who was himself born and protected in that community."@en
"As a Jew born in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon during World War II, filmmaker Pierre Sauvage relates the story of how the village successfully shielded 5,000 Jews from the Nazis. The documentary is followed by an interview with Sauvage, conducted by Bill Moyers."@en
"As a Jew born in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon during World War II, filmmaker Pierre Sauvage relates the story of how the village successfully shielded 5,000 Jews from the Nazis. The documentary is followed by an interview with Sauvage, conducted by Bill Moyers."
"The story of a village in France, Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, that took in and sheltered 5000 Jews from Nazis. Told by Jewish filmmaker, Sauvage, who was himself born and protected in that defiantly peaceful community."@en
"The story of a village in France, Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, that took in and sheltered 5000 Jews from Nazis. Told by Jewish filmmaker, Sauvage, who was himself born and protected in that defiantly peaceful community."
"The story of a village in France, le Chambon-sur-Lignon, that took in and sheltered 5000 Jews from Nazis, as told by Jewish filmmaker Sauvage, who was himself born and protected in that community."
"Tells the astonishing story of the people of Le Chambon sur Lignon, a small village in France who successfully hid 5000 Jews from the Nazis during World War II. In French with English sub-titles."
"Tells the true story of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, in central France, which saved five thousand Jews from the Holocaust during World War II. By interviewing surviving villagers and refugees, and through archival stills and motion pictures, this film recreates the stratagems by which Jews were hidden until they could effect transport to a safe country."@en
"The amazing story of the people of Le Chambon, a small village in France, that gave refuge to 5,000 Jews during World War II."@en
"The extraordinary wartime story of Le Chambon, a tiny Protestant farming village in the mountains of France that defied the Nazi occupation and provided a safe haven throughout the war for thousands of Jews-- many of them children. Bookended by an introduction and interview by Bill Moyers."@en
""During World War II, in and around one village in Nazi-occupied France, 5,000 Jews were sheltered-- by 5,000 Christians! This is a story Pierre Sauvage was born to tell; born and protected in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, he returned just in time to preserve the memory"--Container."