The Bishop Who Gathered the Scattered
In 1940, as Nazi forces swept across France, millions of refugees fled south in desperate chaos. Villages emptied. Families separated. The vulnerable — especially Jewish...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Jeremiah 23:1-6.
In 1940, as Nazi forces swept across France, millions of refugees fled south in desperate chaos. Villages emptied. Families separated. The vulnerable — especially Jewish children — found themselves without protection, abandoned by the very institutions meant to shelter them. Into this void stepped André Trocmé, the Protestant pastor of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, a small village in the mountains of south-central France.…
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