Pierre Chaillet (1900–1972) was a French Catholic priest of the

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(Jesuits), who was recognised as

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for his work to protect Jews from the Nazi Holocaust.Jewish Rescue Operations in Belgium and France
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Chaillet Pierre (1900 - 1972)

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SJ was active in the resistance to Nazism and antisemitism. He assisted in the publication of ''Témoinage chrétien'' with Pierre Chaillet, responding to Neo-paganism and antisemitism with clarity, describing the notion of an Aryan New Testament standing in contradiction to a Semitic Old Testament as "blasphemy" and "stupidity".

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