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 30th-anniversary edition
all sales suspended until the upcoming re-release—scheduled for Sunday, Sept. 13, 2020
Please email to sales@chambon.org to be among the first to be notified when the film becomes available
The Holocaust in France, a video-illustrated presentation by Pierre Sauvage New York City
Thursday, Feb. 20, 2020, 6:30pm-8:00pm, Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center
10 East 66th Street (between 5th and Madison), New York, NY 10065
Rétrospective Pierre Sauvage, Mémorial de la Shoah, Paris, June 3-10, 2018
Lieu de Mémoire, Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, June 15-18, 2018
Weapons of the Spirit / Les armes de l'esprit (2020)
multi-award-winning documentary, soon available again in a new, remastered 30th-anniversary edition
Not Idly By: Peter Bergson, America and the Holocaust (2020)
winner, documentary award, Toronto Jewish Film Festival
Yiddish: the Mother Tongue (1979-2020)
Emmy Award-winning celebration of a unique and tenacious language and culture
We Were There: Christians and the Holocaust (2020)
Information pending
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.
The Jewish Week,
New York
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)
Pierre Sauvage on the inaccurate and mean-spirited Village of Secrets