exploring the
necessary and challenging lessons of hope
intertwined with the Holocaust's unavoidable lessons of despair
à la recherche des leçons d'espoir que nous lègue aussi la Shoah...
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Not a single Jew who came [to the area of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon] was turned away, or turned in. But it was not until decades later that the villagers spoke of what they had done -- and even then, only reluctantly. "How could you call us 'good'?" they said. "We were doing what had to be done." President Barack Obama, Yom Hashoah/Holocaust Remembrance Day, United States Capitol, April 23, 2009
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Upcoming (sorry about the delays!):
Weapons of the Spirit—new, remastered wide-screen 2023 edition
Please email to sales@chambon.org to be notified when the film becomes available
"Weapons of the Spirit" and other documentaries
Weapons of the Spirit / Les armes de l'esprit (2023)
multi-award-winning documentary, soon available again in a new, remastered 2023 edition
Not Idly By: Peter Bergson, America and the Holocaust (2023)
winner, documentary award, Toronto Jewish Film Festival
Yiddish: the Mother Tongue (1979-2023)
Emmy Award-winning celebration of a unique and tenacious language and culture
We Were There: Christians and the Holocaust (2023)
Information pending
A Year That Mattered: Varian Fry and the Refugee Crisis, Marseille 1940-41 (2024)
We live in times in which hope is a
rare commodity. That is why someone like Pierre Sauvage is such a valuable
resource. [He] is a purveyor of hope,
of faith in the better instincts of human beings. Judging from the footage
he has completed so far, Sauvage has another inspiring effort on his hands.
The Jewish Week,
New York
Rosenstrasse (interviews for a future documentary?)
The Optimists—The Story of the Rescue
of the Bulgarian Jews From the Holocaust (Jacky Comforty, 2002)
Memory Wars in the Massif Central by Dr. Neil Foxlee
Review of English-language books about Le Chambon (and one soon-to-be-reissued documentary)