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Out of the blue, Chambon-sur-Lignon received a windfall of two million euros. A fortune for the community with its 2,500 inhabitants. An Austrian Jew bequeathed his legacy to the village,
Out of the blue, Chambon-sur-Lignon received a windfall of two million euros. A fortune for the community with its 2,500 inhabitants. An Austrian Jew bequeathed his legacy to the village,
which he had hidden as a child during World War II. Erich Schwam died without descendants at the end of December at the age of 90 in Lyon. Between 1,500 and 4,000 people, Jews and non-Jews, 30 percent of them children,
found refuge in this remote and forested region of 500 square kilometers called the "plateau". An area in which the tradition of hospitality was strongly anchored. The entire area of the plateau received an extremely rare diploma from Israel in 1990,
