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Richard Kyte: Holocaust survivors teach us that we need to build communities filled with people committed to goodness
From the blog of Aaron David Fruh at The Times of Israel
Austrian Jew Leaves Fortune to French Town that Saved His Life Eric Schwam was one of over 3,000 Jews saved by the residents in one small French town. When Vienna-born Jew Eric Schwam recently passed away at the age of 90, he left an unusual bequest. He left the small fortune he’d managed to save up in a lifetime working in the pharmaceutical field to Le Chambon sur Lignon, a town of fewer than 2,500 people in southeastern France. Eighty years ago, the residents of Le Chambon sur Lignon saved the life of Mr. Schwam as well as thousands of other Jewish refugees during the darkest days of the...