Andre Trocme

These people came here(predicate) for help and for shelter. I am their shepherd. A shepherd does not scourge his flock I do not know what a Jew is. I know precisely homo beings. Andre Trocme was born in St. Quentin, 1901, in the north of France to Huguenot parents. After seminary in genus Paris and graduate work at Union Theological Seminary in clean York, he was ordained into the French Reformed Church and served for eight geezerhood among the coal miners and steel workers of Maubeuge and Sin-le-Noble, both small towns in the north of France. He preached nonviolence at a time when such views were unpopular in France.In 1934 Andre Trocme accepted a call to be pastor in the remote Huguenot liquidation of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon on the Plateau Vivarais-Lignon in south Central France. These parishi acers were more sympathetic to his views on nonviolence. Magda Trocme (1901-1996) was born in Italy to an Italian father and a Russian mother. She graduated from the University of Flo rence with a degree in literature and earned further degrees in French. She and Andre Trocme met in the United States speckle she was attending the New York School of Social Work, and they were married in 1926. in concert they had four children, Nelly, Jean-Pierre, Jacques, and Daniel.Andre Trocme was the spiritual leader of the Protestant crowd in the village of Le Chambon sur Lignon in South Eastern France. He urged his congregation in 1942 to give shelter to any Jew who asked for it. Village was soon fill up with hundreds of Jews, both permanent and temporary depending on whether they were able to cross the resound or not. Approx 5,000 Jews passed through Le Chambon. Vichy authorities knew what was hap for it was hard to obnubilate. They demanded Trocme to foreswear but he refused and said These people came here for help and for shelter.I am their shepherd, a Shepherd does not forsake his flock I do not know what a Jew is. I know only Human beings. and for that he was arr ested but shortly released. Andre because had to flee and hide from the Germans but the village kept his legacy and continued to shelter for the Jews. Magda Trocme was his married woman and was involved in creating and maintaining this sanctuary made for the persecuted Jews. Part of Magdas consumption was locating families who were willing to lodge Jewish refugees and prepared the towns many residential schools for increased enrollment, but she was not the only one helping in this work.Community activists reported to the railroad station to beget the arriving refugees so they could then be housed by the town or interpreted to safer places. All these undertakings frustrated the regimes anti-Jewish policies. Several geezerhood after august 15th, 1942, gendarmes moved into Le Chambon to eliminate the town of its illegal aliens and two weeks after that on August 30, rumors were around about an arrest warrant. Trocme urged the congregants to do the will of God, not of men and stresse d the importance of the commandment in Deuteronomy 192-10 concerning the rights of the victimized and their need for shelter.There were no arrests that day, and several days later the gendarmes left the town, their mission failed. Approx 5,000 Jews passed through Le Chambon. Vichy authorities knew what was happening for it was hard to hide. They demanded Trocme to stop but he refused and said These people came here for help and for shelter. I am their shepherd, a Shepherd does not forsake his flock I do not know what a Jew is. I know only Human beings. In 1943, Trocme and two colleagues were arrested where he was held at a camp for 5 weeks.Commanders were trying to get him to sign an commensurateness that would mean following government orders, but refused and was later released but had to then flee from the Germans. Although he was gone the town still carried on without him, prudence and hiding Jews lives. In the late 1940s Andre and Magda Trocme traveled as European Secretaries for the International Fellowship of Reconciliation. On the 5th of January in 1971, Trocme and his wife, Magda were recognized for the right among the nations along with 32 others from Le Chambon and in 1998 the town was given a diploma of honour for their humane gestures in the war.