{"id":430,"date":"2024-08-04T12:57:35","date_gmt":"2024-08-04T12:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cardiozone.ru\/?p=430"},"modified":"2024-08-04T12:57:35","modified_gmt":"2024-08-04T12:57:38","slug":"a-jew-left-a-legacy-to-a-french-town-that-sheltered-him-from-the-nazis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiozone.ru\/?p=430","title":{"rendered":"A Jew left a legacy to a French town that sheltered him from the Nazis"},"content":{"rendered":"

The French town of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, which sheltered Jews from Nazi persecution in the 1940s and 50s, received an inheritance from a Jew whose residents hid from Nazi deportation to death camps..<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Eric SchwamAustrian citizen Eric Schwam, who died at the age of 90 in December 2020, bequeathed a significant amount to Chambon-sur-Lignon, a small village in the south of France with a population of about 2,500 people.<\/p>\n

Although the exact amount has not been disclosed, the mayor claims that the village has received a “generous inheritance.” According to France 3 TV channel, the previous head of the town administration suggested that the amount of the inheritance could be about 2 million euros.<\/p>\n

According to the BBC, Eric Schwam came to Chambon-sur-Lignon with his grandmother and parents in 1943. The whole family then had to leave their home in Vienna to escape Nazi persecution and deportation to death camps.<\/p>\n

For a period of time, family members were in the French prison camp Camp de Rivesaltes. They later escaped to Chambon-sur-Lignon.<\/p>\n

Upon arrival in the French village, the Schwam family hid in the local school building until 1950. This decision helped them avoid being sent to a death camp on the orders of the Vichy regime, the French fascist government that collaborated with the Nazis.<\/p>\n

The mayor said that Mr. Schwam’s generous donation will go to fund scholarships and youth organizations in the village.<\/p>\n

According to The Guardian, the residents of the town at one time took in more than 2,500 Jews in their homes and sheltered them from the genocide of the 40s.<\/p>\n

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Fascists in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon<\/p>\n

Later, the leadership of the museum and the national memorial of the Disaster and Heroism of Yad Vashem in Israel paid special attention to the heroic merits of Chambon-sur-Lignon, and the village was awarded the honorary title “Righteous among the Nations of the World”, awarded to representatives of the non-Jewish nation who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust.<\/p>\n

In 2004, former French President Jacques Chirac officially celebrated the heroism of the residents of the town.<\/p>\n

Chambon-sur-Lignon continues to shelter refugees from political persecution to this day. Migrants from Kosovo, Rwanda and Chechnya have found refuge here.<\/p>\n

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The French town of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, which sheltered Jews from Nazi persecution in the 1940s and 50s, received an inheritance from a Jew whose residents hid from Nazi deportation to death camps.. Eric SchwamAustrian citizen Eric Schwam, who died at the age of 90 in December 2020, bequeathed a significant amount to Chambon-sur-Lignon, a small […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":431,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cardiozone.ru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cardiozone.ru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cardiozone.ru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cardiozone.ru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cardiozone.ru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cardiozone.ru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cardiozone.ru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cardiozone.ru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cardiozone.ru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cardiozone.ru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}