European significance: presents the rescue operations provided by the locals during World War II, from December 1940 to September 1944 the inhabitants of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon and the villages of the surrounding plateau provided shelter for an estimated 5,000 people of Jewish origin (among them many children), as well as Spanish republicans, anti-Nazi Germans, members of the French resistance and others; place of active resistance and a refuge for those people these regimes sought to eliminate
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