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Erich Schwam

Plaque is affixed on the village school of Le Chambon sur Lignon and recalls the solidarity attitude of the whole population towards Jews during their WWII persecution, allowing several thousands of lives to be saved. (Wikipedia/ Author Pensées de Pascal / Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0))
January 31, 2021, 3:04 pm
Jewish man leaves £1.75m to French town that hid him from Nazis
Erich Schwam, who died at 90 on Christmas Day, willed his estate to Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, the mountain town where his Jewish family hid for two years
By JTA
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