The Righteous of France

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During the Second World War, in Europe, a number of non-Jewish men and women helped Jews by providing them with relief, food, clothing, shelters, caches, false papers, information about an upcoming raid, transportation to a border, access to school or work... Individually or within networks, of all social conditions, of different opinions and confessions, in large cities as in the most isolated rural areas, it is animated by the same refusal of barbarity, by the sense of solidarity and humanity that they have acted.