Who Is Trocme A Hero

Holocaust Rescuers: André Trocmé
Introduction: André Trocmé was a very open minded and caring individual. He was a person that cared about everyone no matter race or religion. But most importantly, he was a leader.
Thesis: In my opinion, André Trocmé was the driving force of the village of Le Chambon. Without his preaching or help, Le Chambon today probably won’t be known as the famous refugee-helping town.
Rescuer Before He/ She Was a Hero: Even before André Trocmé was a hero, he was a leader, Trocmé was born in 1901 in St. Quentin, France. He lived until 1971. He was 70 years old. In his late teens and early twenties, Trocmé de seminary work in Paris and completed graduate school at Union Theological Seminary. He later was ordained into
: It all started in the winter of 1940 when Trocmé contacted the Friends Service Committee to see if they could help foreign Jews in internment camps in southern France. The committee said that they could help release the Jews but they did not have any place for them to stay. Trocmé said that he and his town would help to hide them. He did as he said. He then started preaching to his congregation to help the jaw, asking them to help doing whatever they could. The residents of the village of Le Chambon housed, feed, educated and even gave the refugees false identification to they could cross the boarder to
So he did by helping the refugees. When he and the town helped the refugees, they have to make sure that they covered their tracks because the Vichy government would notice and punish them if the found out what was going on. They would get killed, arrested or sent to a concentration camp for hiding the refugees. The Vichy government eventually found out what was going on, so many raids took place. The first successful raid was in June of 1943. Many innocent citizens were killed or arrested. In one of the raids, Trocmé got caught and then was arrested. He said a very famous quote in the process. “These people come here for help and shelter I am their Shepard. A Shepard does not forsake his flock… I do not know what a Jew is. I know only human beings.” He got released weeks later after signing papers saying that he would follow the laws. He then went in hiding for 10 months. But because of his leadership, the town of Le Chambon kept helping the Jews. His heroic actions got awarded in January 5th 1971 when Yard Vashm recognized his family and 32 other citizens of Le Champion righteous among