2.
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
- 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