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Yom Hashoah Commemoration Event—A Good Place to Hide: The Village of Le Chambon

Page4bKupferberg Holocaust Resource Center and Archives

Queensborough Community College CUNY

222-05 56th Avenue Bayside, NY 11364

Keynote Speaker: Peter Grose

Drs. Bebe and Owen Bernstein Lecture 

Join us for our Yom HaShoah Commemorative event this year featuring a presentation from Keynote Speaker Peter Grose, as well as other commemorative events and speakers.

Peter Grose shares the story of an isolated community in the upper reaches of the Loire Valley that conspired to save the lives of 3,500 Jews under the noses of the Germans and the soldiers of Vichy France. It is the story of a pacifist Protestant pastor who broke laws and defied orders to protect the lives of total strangers. It is the story of an eighteen-year-old Jewish boy from Nice who forged 5,000 sets of false identity papers to save other Jews and French Resistance fighters from the Nazi concentration camps. And it is the story of a community of good men and women who offered sanctuary, kindness, solidarity and hospitality to people in desperate need, knowing full well the consequences to themselves. Nobody asked questions, nobody demanded money. Villagers lied, covered up, procrastinated and concealed, but most importantly they welcomed.

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When: Sun., May. 1, 2016 at 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Where: Queensborough Community College
222-05 56th Ave.
718-281-5044
Price: Free
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Page4bKupferberg Holocaust Resource Center and Archives

Queensborough Community College CUNY

222-05 56th Avenue Bayside, NY 11364

Keynote Speaker: Peter Grose

Drs. Bebe and Owen Bernstein Lecture 

Join us for our Yom HaShoah Commemorative event this year featuring a presentation from Keynote Speaker Peter Grose, as well as other commemorative events and speakers.

Peter Grose shares the story of an isolated community in the upper reaches of the Loire Valley that conspired to save the lives of 3,500 Jews under the noses of the Germans and the soldiers of Vichy France. It is the story of a pacifist Protestant pastor who broke laws and defied orders to protect the lives of total strangers. It is the story of an eighteen-year-old Jewish boy from Nice who forged 5,000 sets of false identity papers to save other Jews and French Resistance fighters from the Nazi concentration camps. And it is the story of a community of good men and women who offered sanctuary, kindness, solidarity and hospitality to people in desperate need, knowing full well the consequences to themselves. Nobody asked questions, nobody demanded money. Villagers lied, covered up, procrastinated and concealed, but most importantly they welcomed.

www.qcc.cuny.edu/khrca

Buy tickets/get more info now