Resistance: When France's clergy saved Jews during... France 24

Resistance: When France's clergy saved Jews during WWII

France 24 May 07, 2025

After the fall of France in 1940, the clergy welcomed Marshal Pétain as a saviour. But when Jewish people started being rounded up in the summer of 1942, Protestant pastors and Catholic clerics spoke out against the deportations. Their words broke the silence of the institutions and encouraged the Resistance, while schools and convents opened their doors to Jewish refugees.

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