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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Weapons of the Spirit Les armes de l'esprit (1989-2014)
Yiddish: the Mother Tongue (1979-2014)
The Optimists—The Story of the Rescue of the Bulgarian Jews From the Holocaust (Jacky Comforty, 2002)
Not Idly By: Peter
Bergson, America and the Holocaust (2014)
winner, documentary award, Toronto Jewish Film Festival
And Crown Thy Good: Varian Fry and the Refugee Crisis, Marseille, 1940-1941 (upcoming)
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.
George Robinson, The Jewish Week,
New York
