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Château de Chabannes was an Château de Chabannes
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Château de Chabannes. Photo Archives
A Miracle Happened There: A Review of "The Children of Chabannes"
by Gentry Menzel (newenglandfilm)
Los Angeles Times, 23 November 2000
Open Letter from
The official page made by the french department where Chabannes is located (in French)the Children's Home in Château de Chabannes
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Château de Chabannes was an orphanage
An orphanage is a residential institution, total institution or group home, devoted to the care of orphans and children who, for various reasons, cannot be cared for by their biological families. The parents may be deceased, absent, or a ...
in the village of Chabannes (part of today's Saint-Pierre-de-Fursac
Saint-Pierre-de-Fursac (; Limousin: ''Furçac (Sent Peir)'') is a former commune in the Creuse department in central France. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new commune Fursac.Vichy France
Vichy France (french: Régime de Vichy; 10 July 1940 – 9 August 1944), officially the French State ('), was the fascist French state headed by Marshal Philippe Pétain during World War II. Officially independent, but with half of its t ...
where about 400 Jewish refugee
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Timeline
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Assyrian captivity
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children were saved from the Holocaust
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by efforts of its director, Félix Chevrier and other teachers. It was operated by Œuvre de secours aux enfants
Œuvre de secours aux enfants (, Children's Aid Society), abbreviated OSE is a French Jewish humanitarian organization which was founded in Russia in 1912 to help Russian Jewish children. Later it moved to France.
OSE's most important activitie ...
(OSE) from 1940 to 1943.at
Yad Vashem
Yad Vashem ( he, יָד וַשֵׁם; literally, "a memorial and a name") is Israel's official memorial to the victims of the Holocaust. It is dedicated to preserving the memory of the Jews who were murdered; honoring Jews who fought against th ...
website
It is the subject of a 1999 documentary, ''The Children of Chabannes'', by filmmakers Lisa Gossels (whose father and uncle were among the survivors) and Dean Wetherell.
References
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Château de Chabannes. Photo Archives
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
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A Miracle Happened There: A Review of "The Children of Chabannes"
by Gentry Menzel (newenglandfilm)
Los Angeles Times, 23 November 2000
Open Letter from
Pierre Sauvage
Pierre Sauvage is a French-American documentary filmmaker and lecturer, who was a child survivor of the Holocaust. Described by ''Tablet'' Magazine as "a filmmaker of rare moral perception."
Documentary filmmaker
Sauvage is best known for his ...
to Lisa Gossels, producer of the 2000 documentary ''The Children of Chabannes''The official page made by the french department where Chabannes is located (in French)
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Yad Vashem
Yad Vashem ( he, יָד וַשֵׁם; literally, "a memorial and a name") is Israel's official memorial to the victims of the Holocaust. It is dedicated to preserving the memory of the Jews who were murdered; honoring Jews who fought against th ...
website
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