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France: Jewish man wills his fortune to village that hid him from Nazis


His family had fled their home in Vienna to escape Nazis persecution, the BBC said.
For an unknown period of time, they were held in France s Camp de Rivesaltes internment camp. The family somehow escaped and fled to Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, according to The Daily Telegraph.
Upon arrival in the French village, the Schwam family was hidden in a school for the duration of the war. This was to avoid being sent to a death camp by the Vichy regime  the French fascist government that collaborated with the Nazis.
The family stayed in the school building until 1950, the BBC reported.
Schwam s sizeable donation will go towards funding scholarships and youth initiatives in the village, the mayor told The Telegraph. ....

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Jewish man leaves his fortune to French village that saved him and his family from Nazi death camps


Jewish man leaves his fortune to French village that saved him and his family from Nazi death camps
 Jan 31, 2021, 06:22 PM
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A French village has inherited a large amount of money from a Jewish man they sheltered during WWII.
Eric Schwam, who died last year, was hidden in a school in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon during the war.
The village s former mayor says that Schwam left them about two million euros (R36m),
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An Austrian Jew has left his fortune to a French village that hid his family from Nazi persecution, reported the BBC.
When he died in December last year, Eric Schwam, who was 90-years-old, bequeathed a substantial sum to Le Chambon-sur-Lignon - a small town of about 2,500 people in the south of France. ....

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Jewish man's bequeaths nearly £2m to French village that sheltered him from the Nazis as a child


Jewish man bequeaths nearly £2m to French village that sheltered him from the Nazis as a child
Tiny village of Chambon-sur-Lignon saved more than 2,500 Jews during the Second World War
29 January 2021 • 6:19pm
Eric Schwan was sheltered in the village as a teenage boy, together with his parents and maternal grandmother
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A Jewish Austrian has left a bequest believed to be worth nearly £2m to the French village that sheltered him from the Nazis during the Second World War.
Eric Schwan, who died on December 25 at the age of 90, left a large part of his fortune to Chambon-sur-Lignon, a remote mountain village in south-east France that took in some 2,500 Jews fleeing Nazi persecution. ....

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