.
Tence
Chaumargeais
Istor ...
many places resistance
the Holocaust
On 20 June this year, Chaumargeais was inaugurated in a Tree of Remembrance for all families of the persecuted who found shelter in the region and Tence tribute to those who helped them during the Second World War.
From the same day, Istor, a plaque now commemorates the "School of Prophets", the Jewish cultural core in the midst of a barbarism which sought the complete disappearance.
Finally, Mazet, spouses Duron were officially recognized as "Righteous Among the Nations. The page 250 of this blog has already describes this ceremony in a Protestant country.
Jean Gibert:
- "At the initiative of Friends of Old Tence ago opened The Tree of Remembrance, in memory of the persecuted families and housed in the town and its surroundings. This stele is intended as a tribute to all those who helped the people uprooted, looking at the option of meetings, safety, shelter, food to eat and if possible a little warmth.
The simplicity of the ceremony was combined with the recollection of participants listening to the words the chief magistrate Tençois Jean Digonnet, president of Friends of Old Tence Michel Pabiou, followed by a brief statement of the Secretary of State, Laurent Wauquiez, and narrative of the exodus of Jews by Francis Weill, then hidden child with his family at Mazet-Saint-Voy.
interpretation moving, a cappella, by Jean-Claude Fouillet the song by Jean Ferrat, Night and Fog, preceded the discovery of the stele, Tree of Memory. Afterwards, participants are fitted up "Istor" inaugurate a brochure explaining the role of the School of the Prophets and listen to the testimony Mr. Michaeli, a former ambassador and consul of France in Africa, having been collected specifically to "Istor" by the Fournier family. "
(The Progress, June 21, 2010).
plate affixed by the Friends of Old Tence (Ph.hephil.roux / BCFYV / DR).
On the plaque explaining the Tree of Memory Tence, we read this quote by Andre Chouraqui :
- "I pedal until the moon appears, and is high in the sky ......
Tomorrow we will look ....
I have in me a terrible vision of the world's agony and indignity of men
our unworthiness. "
André Chouraqui:
- "Andre Chouraqui makes contact with the emerging networks of the Resistance and becomes the representative of the OSE (Work Relief Jewish children into hiding) in Haute-Loire and Ardèche.
For over two years, he traveled to villages to hide children and providing false documents to refugees threatened with deportation. He finds the solidarity of Protestant pastors and villages at a time when France is the hunt for Jews. Chambon provide its patrons a teaching job and a pension to his friend Master George Vajda, thus established a few miles from Chouraqui.
In hiding, he met the historian Jules Isaac.
With Albert Camus, also a refugee, they laid the foundations of their works each other.
Near the house he occupies in the village, Jacob Gordin leads "school of the prophets", the core of the future school senior Orsay, where some Jewish intellectuals think that will be the aftermath of the war. "
(Official Biography).
In hiding: André Chouraqui and his wife (Arch. fam. / BCFYV / DR).
Fabienne Mercier:
- "It is eighty-eight, an awfully nice boil. His eye is malicious, even if the emotion overwhelms sometimes. When he remembers the asylum that he and his friends, young people, Jewish intellectuals, found here in the land Top-Lignon, in Lydia and Henry Fournier, during part of the Second World War. His name is Yitzhak Michaeli, he lives in Israel. In attendance were hailed by the caller simply Micha.
What he says seems absolutely surreal. Imagine that in the period when the hunt for Jews to their extermination, is at its peak, in a Europe with fire and blood, Micha participated in "Istor" a hamlet "Chaumargeais" Common Tence a circle of Jewish studies and training. From November 1943 to July 1944, the seminar continued spiritual and philosophical standing objective to perpetuate and transmit the foundations of a renewed Jewish identity.
we found the remarkable personalities. The pivots of the adventure were, alongside Micha, Georges Levitte, Elie Rotnemer, Peter Weill-Raynal. Be added then Jacob and Rachel Gordin, Georges Vajda. Still gravitate to the area as refugees from other thinkers Andre Chouraqui, Leon Poliakov. They came, most of the clandestine branch of the Israelite scouts France, a structure related to Scouting.
In a moment of history when it was dark, these creatures are projected resolutely in the future with optimism. "We were looking all together, bringing, each of our individual contributions, the elements of a specifically Jewish thought but wide open on the universality and humanism. "
Summer 44 will see this dispersed community, some rallying a particular bush or pursuing their struggle by other means. Today, researchers are just beginning to dig this little known aspect History. Derisively tender, it was strange circle called "The School of the Prophets."
(The Progress, June 21, 2010).
.
0 comments:
Post a Comment