An Austrian man who died in December has left an undisclosed fortune
to the French village of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon to thank residents for
hiding his family from Nazis during World War II...Le Chambon and
nearby villages welcomed Jewish refugees, mostly children, after 1940,
according to the town hall website.
Posted by
Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, USA
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I saw that too! Wasn't that amazing?
Posted by
Columbus, OH, USA
2084 posts
An article I saw indicated he left about €2 million. In 1990 the town was honored as Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem ( the Holocaust memorial ) in Israel.