The Memorial Museum in Le Chambon sur Lignon Le Chambo, Haute-Loire, France.
The Le Chambon-sur-Lignon resistance/Holocaust story is an amazing account of just one of the many selfless and ongoing actions (this one began in 1942 and continued through to Liberation Day) that marked Resistance activities in occupied France. Although it has been a 20-year struggle to raise funds, Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, has now created a museum opposite the town’s Protestant Church to ensure the history of those troubled times is kept vividly alive in what still today is one of the heartlands of Huguenot (Protestant) France — lying 120 kms southeast of Lyon in the south-central Haute-Loire department. In 1990 the town was one of two to be given the Righteous Among the Nations award by Israel’s Yad Vashem for saving Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe. This museum opened on June 5, 2013 and tells the story of the “modest and discrete acts” in Le Chambon sur Lignon and surrounding villages which ensured thousands of lives were saved. The museum offers a permanent exhibition of the history of the area during World War II and a memorial space with many filmed testimonies
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Location: Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, France
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