David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

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Why didn’t the Nazis come to Le
Chambon and make an example of the
residents? The enrollment at the school
started by Trocmé and Theis rose from
18 pupils on the eve of the war to 350 by



  1. It didn’t take any great powers of
    deduction to figure out who those extra
    332 children were. Nor did the town
    make any great secret of what it was
    doing. We feel obliged to tell you that
    there are among us a certain number of
    Jews. One aid worker described coming
    up on the train from Lyon several times a
    month with a dozen or so Jewish
    children in tow. She would leave them at

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