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French Town Opens
Museum For Rescuers
(JTA) — A French town where doz-
ens of residents saved thousands of
Jews from the Holocaust will open a
museum to commemorate the rescu-
ers' actions.
The Memory of Chambon museum
is scheduled to open on June 5 in
Chambon-sur-Lignon, 70 miles south
of Lyon in southern France, according
to the French news agency AFP.
The museum will commemorate
the actions of at least 35 residents
who, according to the Yad Vashem
Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem,
prevented French authorities under
the pro-Nazi Vichy government from
deporting and murdering approxi-
mately 5,000 Jews.
The rescue was initiated and led
by the town's pastor, Andre Trocme,
and his wife, Magda. The couple and
another 33 townspeople have been
recognized as Righteous Among
the Nations, a title conferred by Yad
Vashem to non-Jews who risked
their lives to save Jews during the
Holocaust.
Trocme hid Jews in his parish and
smuggled many others into neutral
Switzerland.
According to Yad Vashem, the
Vichy authorities became aware of
his activities and cautioned him to
cease. His response: "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:'
Andre Trocme was arrested but
released. His cousin, Daniel Trocme,
died in the Buchenwald concentration
camp, where he was sent for rescu-
ing Jewish children in his capacity as
director of a local children's home.

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Mass Arab Grave From
'48 War Found In Jaffa
(JTA) — A mass grave holding
the remains of dozens of Arabs
killed during Israel's 1948 War of
Independence was unearthed at a
Muslim cemetery in Jaffa.
The discovery of the mass grave —
six underground rooms with the skel-
etons of adults and children — was
made last week during renovations
to the cemetery, the French news
agency AFP reported.
The bodies were placed in the
existing crypts of several families
and were not buried in accordance
with Muslim tradition, according to
reports.
AFP reported that the bodies were
of people killed in the south of Jaffa,
now part of the Tel Aviv municipality,
in the final months of the 1948 war.

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