The Village That Became a Fortress

In the winter of 1942, a Jewish woman knocked on the door of the presbytery in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, a small village in the mountains of southern France. Pastor André Trocmé's wife Magda opened it, looked at the frightened stranger, and said simply, "Come in." That moment set the course for an entire community. Over the next three years, the villagers of Le Chambon sheltered roughly 3,500 Jews from Nazi deportation.…