| A Portrait of Pacifists: Le Chambon, the Holocaust, and the Lives of André and Magda Trocmé Subjects: Trocmé André 1901–1971; Trocmé Magda 1901–1996; Trocmé André 1901–1971 -- Religion; Trocmé Magda 1901–1996 -- Religion; Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust -- France -- Le Chambon-sur-Lignon -- Biography; Pacifists -- France -- Le Chambon-sur-Lign; This biography tells the story of André and Magda Trocmé, two individuals who made nonviolence a way of life. During World War II, the southern French town of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon and its surrounding villages became a center where Jews and others in flight from Nazi roundups could be hidden or led abroad, and where children with parents in concentration camps could be nurtured and educated. The Trocmés' courage during World War II has been well documented in books and film, yet the full arc of their lives--the impulse that led them to devote themselves to nonviolence and their extensive work in the decades following the war--has never been compiled into a full-length biography. Richard P. Unsworth is a senior fellow at the Kahn Liberal Arts Institute at Smith College. He has taught religion at Smith College and Dartmouth College, and served as headmaster and president of Northfield Mount Hermon School. His years of involvement with the Collège Cévenol in France led to a friendship with André and Magda Trocmé. |