Daniel Trocmé (1910- 1944) in

Le Chambon-sur-Lignon Le Chambon-sur-Lignon (, literally "Le Chambon on Lignon du Velay, Lignon"; oc, Lo Chambon, label=Auvergnat dialect, Auvergnat) is a Communes of France, commune in the Haute-Loire Departments of France, department in south-central France. Resid ...

, France. He taught physics, chemistry and natural sciences. He became the principal of a

boarding school A boarding school is a school where pupils live within premises while being given formal instruction. The word "boarding" is used in the sense of "room and board", i.e. lodging and meals. As they have existed for many centuries, and now exten ...

in 1941. Daniel Trocmé got sent to different

detention camp Internment is the imprisonment of people, commonly in large groups, without charges or intent to file charges. The term is especially used for the confinement "of enemy citizens in wartime or of terrorism suspects". Thus, while it can simpl ...

s until he died in 1944 from exhaustion and sickness. He was recognized as a

Righteous Among the Nations Righteous Among the Nations ( he, חֲסִידֵי אֻמּוֹת הָעוֹלָם, ; "righteous (plural) of the world's nations") is an honorific used by the State of Israel to describe non-Jews who risked their lives during the Holocaust to sav ...

for saving Jews in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon in France.

Activity During WWII

When Trocmé became the principal of a boarding school, La Maison des Roches, in 1941 in France, he helped many Jewish

refugee A refugee, conventionally speaking, is a displaced person who has crossed national borders and who cannot or is unwilling to return home due to well-founded fear of persecution.

children there, an act that was explicitly against the law, and fought for human rights . Between the years 1941- 1943 Daniel Trocmé and his cousin André Trocmé, managed to smuggle about 5,000 Jews through the village of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon and saved them from death. In June 1943 the

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army broke into the school to search for Trocmé and his Jewish students. At that time, Trocmé wasn't present at school. Although he could have escaped, he chose to return to his Jewish students. Under threats, he got taken along with 18 of his students to be arrested. While he was being investigated, he continued to show courage and did everything to lift the spirit of his students. He claimed against the Nazis that he was just protecting the helpless. Daniel Trocmé got sent to different detention camps until he died in 1944 from exhaustion and sickness at the age of 34.

Honors

On March 18, 1976,

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recognized Daniel Trocmé as a

References

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External links

The partisans and ghetto fighters website: Le Chambon-sur-Lignon

Le Chambon-sur-Lignon
French Righteous Among the Nations 1910 births 1944 deaths French people who died in the Holocaust