"Happy are those Hungary and thirsty for justice,
"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 André 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 turning points took place in
the kitchen at the hands of women. André Trocmes practical wife Magda Trocme,
exceedingly invited the first Jewish refugee into her home and therefore ignited a
spark for the "kitchen resistance" against the Nazis. Non-violent resistance in the
kitchens of these houses was a fight for the true liberation of their village. Secrecy
was fundamental to the kitchen as it was to the resistance of André Trocme and his
supporters in the church, and so was a minuscule amount of records. Magda was
able to resist due to her astute sense of danger and alertness to when the Nazi's were
becoming suspicious. It was easy for t
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