Andre Trocme Research Paper
“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.”
André Trocmé was born in St. Quentin, 1901, in the north of France to Huguenot parents. After seminary in Paris and graduate work at Union Theological Seminary in New York, he was ordained into the French Reformed Church and served for eight years among the coal miners and steel workers of Maubeuge and Sin-le-Noble, two small towns in the north of France. He preached nonviolence at a time when such views were unpopular in France. In 1934 André Trocmé accepted a call to be pastor in the remote Huguenot village of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon on the Plateau Vivarais-Lignon in South …show more content…
She graduated from the University of Florence with a degree in literature and earned further degrees in French. She and André Trocmé met in the United States while she was attending the New York School of Social Work, and they were married in 1926. Together they had four children, Nelly, Jean-Pierre, Jacques, and Daniel.
Andre Trocmé was the spiritual leader of the Protestant congregation 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 filled with hundreds of Jews, both permanent and temporary depending on whether they were able to cross the border or not.
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.” and for that he was arrested but shortly released. Andre then had to flee and hide from the Germans but the village kept his legacy and continued to shelter for the Jews. Magda Trocmé was his wife and was involved in creating and maintaining this sanctuary made for the persecuted …show more content…
Community activists reported to the railroad station to receive the arriving refugees so they could then be housed by the town or taken to safer places. All these undertakings frustrated the regime’s anti-Jewish policies.
Several days 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. Trocmé urged the congregants to “do the will of God, not of men” and stressed the importance of the commandment in Deuteronomy 19:2-10 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
André Trocmé was born in St. Quentin, 1901, in the north of France to Huguenot parents. After seminary in Paris and graduate work at Union Theological Seminary in New York, he was ordained into the French Reformed Church and served for eight years among the coal miners and steel workers of Maubeuge and Sin-le-Noble, two small towns in the north of France. He preached nonviolence at a time when such views were unpopular in France. In 1934 André Trocmé accepted a call to be pastor in the remote Huguenot village of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon on the Plateau Vivarais-Lignon in South …show more content…
She graduated from the University of Florence with a degree in literature and earned further degrees in French. She and André Trocmé met in the United States while she was attending the New York School of Social Work, and they were married in 1926. Together they had four children, Nelly, Jean-Pierre, Jacques, and Daniel.
Andre Trocmé was the spiritual leader of the Protestant congregation 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 filled with hundreds of Jews, both permanent and temporary depending on whether they were able to cross the border or not.
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.” and for that he was arrested but shortly released. Andre then had to flee and hide from the Germans but the village kept his legacy and continued to shelter for the Jews. Magda Trocmé was his wife and was involved in creating and maintaining this sanctuary made for the persecuted …show more content…
Community activists reported to the railroad station to receive the arriving refugees so they could then be housed by the town or taken to safer places. All these undertakings frustrated the regime’s anti-Jewish policies.
Several days 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. Trocmé urged the congregants to “do the will of God, not of men” and stressed the importance of the commandment in Deuteronomy 19:2-10 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