The Collège Cévenol and Le Chambon-sur-Lignon

This bibliography provides a basic listing of titles on the Collège Cévenol and its links to resistance and rescue efforts on the Plateau Vivarais-Lignon during the Second World War. It does not constitute an exhaustive bibliography on Chambon or resistance activity on the Plateau; many other titles explore these topics and are cited in the volumes published by the Société de l’Histoire de la Montagne and by Gérard Bollon, among others. It does, however, provide essential historical sources and scholarly discussions on the Collège and its part in the history of Chambon; a list of the numerous memoirs and young-adult titles that have developed around these topics; a list of films and documentaries; and notable unpublished manuscript materials concerning the Collège and its founders

Special thanks to Gérard Bollon and Guylaine Carrot for their help in compiling the bibliography.

Last updated: 2010-12-04. Items highlighted in yellow have been added since the previous version of the bibliography.

For additions or corrections, please contact Philip Barnard / ude.uk@bpilihp

 I. Articles and Books.

 Aslanov, Cyril. “Jacob Gordin en France: transfert de savoir ou malentendu culturel?”       Archives Juives 38.1 (2005), 43-55. (Gordin and the Ecole des prophètes at          Chaumargeais).

 Batten, Alicia J. Reading the Bible in Occupied France: André Trocmé and Le Chambon.             Harvard Theological Review 103.3 (2010), 309-28.

 Bernard, Serge. “Identité et sociodiversité. Dynamiques locales autour des projets de        centres de mémoire.” In Christine Delory-Momberger and Gérard Laniez, eds., Le    sujet dans la cité:insertion et territoires solidaires, 147-165. Actes du Colloque          de La Rochelle, décembre 2008. Nantes: Editions Pleins feux (Collection   “L’impensé contemporain”), 2009.

 _____. Traces légendaires, Mémoires et Construction identitaire. Etude      sociohistorique d’une presqu’île cévenole en Haute Loire. Lille: Diffusion ANRT         Thèses, 2004. 

 Boismorand, Pierre, ed. Magda et André Trocmé: Figures de résistances. Texts selected    and edited by Pierre Boismorand. Preface by Lucien Lazare. Paris: Editions du   Cerf, 2008.

 Bolle, Pierre, ed. Le Plateau Vivarais-Lignon: Accueil et Résistance, 1939-1944. Actes      du Colloque du Chambon-sur-Lignon. Le Chambon-sur-Lignon: Société de      l'Histoire de la Montagne, 1992.

 Bollon, Gérard. “La cause des enfants en Haute-Loire orientale; culture protestante et       dynamisme associatif.” Empan 57 (March 2005), 28-34. Special issue on      “Dynamisme de résistance et travail social.”

 _____. “La cause des enfants sur le Plateau Vivarais-Lignon.” Les Cahiers du Mézenc 22 (2010), 49-56.

 _____. Le Chambon du Prieuré aux XVIIème et XVIIIème siècles. Le Chambon sur   Lignon: Imprimerie de Cheyne, 1985.

 ____.  Le Chambon-sur-Lignon d’hier et d’aujourd’hui. 2^nd Edition. Le Cheylard: Editions Dolmazon, 2007 [1999].

 _____. “Contribution à l’histoire du Chambon-sur-Lignon: Le foyer universitaire des         Roches et la Rafle de 1943.” Cahiers de la Haute-Loire 96 (1991), 391-421.

 _____. “Femmes militantes et résistantes de la Montagne.” Les Cahiers du Mézenc 16       (2004), 57-68.

 _____. “Identité du plateau protestant Vivarais-Lignon.” Les Cahiers du Mézenc 11 (July             1999), 9-16.

 _____. “La montagne protestante, terre d’accueil et de résistance pendant la seconde         guerre mondiale (1940-45).” Les Cahiers du Mézenc 14 (2002), 25-32.

 _____. “La Montagne vellave, terre d'accueil du XVIIIème siècle au milieu du XXème     siècle.” Cahiers de la Haute-Loire (1991), 213-224.

 _____. Pages du Plateau Vivarais-Lignon pendant la guerre 1939-1945. Le Mazet-Saint- Voy: Imprimerie Chazot, 2008.  English translation: Pages of Vivarais-Lignon             History during the 1939-1945 War. Tr. Jane Landon. Le Chambon sur Lignon:             Imprimerie Chazot, 2009.

 _____. Les Séjours d’Albert Camus sur le plateau Vellave (1942-52). Saint-Jeures:             L’Atelier du Moulin, 2006.

 _____. Les Villages sur la montagne: Entre Ardèche et Haute-Loire, le Plateau, terre         d’accueil et de refuge. Le Cheylard: Editions Dolmazon, 2004.

 Bollon, Gérard and Annik Flaud. “Les Justes du Plateau Vivarais-Lignon: accueil,             sauveteurs, portraits.” Les Cahiers du Mézenc 19 (2006), 35-42.

 _____. Paroles de réfugiés, paroles de justes: La Montagne dans la guerre, terre d'exil,      terre d'asile autour du Chambon-sur-Lignon. With a Preface by Simone Veil. Le    Cheylard: Editions Dolmazon, 2009.

 Boulet, François. “Etrangers et Juifs en Haute-Loire de 1936 à 1944.” Cahiers de la          Haute-Loire (1992), 301-350.

 _____. Histoire de la Montagne-refuge. Polignac: Editions du Roure, 2009.

 Cabanel, Patrick. La Tour de Constance et Le Chambon-sur-Lignon: l’oubli et le    royaume. Paris: Editions La Louve, 2007.

 Chabrut, Gilbert, Roger Darcissac, and André Trocmé. Le visage et l’âme du Chambon.    Le Chambon-sur-Lignon: Editions Messageries Evangéliques, 1943.

 Collective edition (no editor indicated). Album-souvenirs: parcours de M. Jacques             Chirac, Président de la République, le 8 juillet 2004, au Chambon sur Lignon. Le    Chambon-sur-Lignon: Mairie du Chambon sur Lignon, 2004.

 _____. Les Résistances sur le plateau Vivarais-Lignon, 1938-1945: Témoins,          témoignages et lieux de mémoires. Les oubliés de l'histoire           parlent. Introduction   by Michel Fabréguet. Polignac: Editions du Roure, 2005.

 _____. Education, cultures, et valeurs: Actes du colloque organisé par le Collège    Cévenol en 1994. Le Chambon-sur-Lignon: Imprimerie Cheyne, 1994.

 Darcissac, Roger. “Témoignage sur les débuts du Collège Cévenol.” Cahiers de la             Haute-Loire (1981), 179-182.  (Note: this text is almost certainly misattributed to       Darcissac.  It belongs to the ensemble of recollections that were used to write the     manuscript text “30 ans d’histoire du Collège Cévenol,” listed in section IV of       this bibliography. On the reading of G. Bollon, this text is the work of either     Trocmé or Theis, most probably the latter.)

 D’Aubigné Jeanne Merle, Violette Mouchon, Émile C. Fabre. Les Clandestins de Dieu:     CIMADE 1939-1945. Paris: Editions Fayard, 1968.  English translation: God’s      Underground: CIMADE 1939-1945. Tr. William and Patricia Nottingham. St.         Louis: Bethany Press, 1970.

 Debiève, Roger. Mémoires meurtries, mémoire trahie: Le Chambon-sur-Lignon. Paris:       L'Harmattan, 1995.

 Fabréguet, Michel. “Histoire et mémoires en confrontation. L’exemple du Chambon-sur-   Lignon à l’occasion du déplacement du président Jacques Chirac (8 juillet,   2004).” In Régis Latouche and Michel Mathien, eds., Histoire, mémoire et      médias (Bruxelles: Bruylant, 2009), 69-94.

 Fayol, Pierre. Le Chambon sur Lignon sous l’Occupation 1940-1944: Les résistances         locales, l'aide interalliée, l'action de Virginia Hall (O.S.S.). Paris: Editions       L’Harmattan, 1990.

 Feldman, Marion and M.-R. Moro. “‘Enfants cachés: 1940–1944’: un vécu traumatique     qui se poursuit.” Neuropsychiatrie de l'Enfance et de l'Adolescence 56. 4-5 (juin-        juillet 2008), 215-222.

 Fox, Deborah. "Magda Trocmé: A Mother Responds, "Hineni!" Shofar: An             Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies 24.3 (2006), 90-99.

 Garcia-Fons, Tristan. “Josée Manenti, Matière d’entre nous.” La lettre de l'enfance et de     l'adolescence (revue du GRAPE). 63.1 (2006), 71-83.

 Hallie, Philip. Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed: The Story of Le Chambon and How     Goodness Happened There. New York: Harper & Row, 1979.

 Hatzfeld, Olivier. Le Collège Cévenol a Cinquante Ans. Le Chambon-sur-Lignon: Imprimerie Cheyne, 1989.

 Henry, Patrick (Patrick Gerard). “Albert Camus, Le Panelier, et la Peste.” Literary             Imagination 5.3 (2003), 383-406.

 _____. “Banishing the Coercion of Despair: Le Chambon-sur-Lignon and the Holocaust   Today.” Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies 20.2 (2002), 69-  84.

 _____. “Daniel’s Choice: Daniel Trocmé (192-1944).” The French Review 74.4 (2001),     728-739.

 _____. “Madeleine Dreyfus, Jewish Activity, Righteous Jews.” Logos 7.1 (2004), 134-     146.

 _____. La Montagne des Justes: Le Chambon sur Lignon de 1940 à 1945. Toulouse:          Editions Privat, 2010.

_____. We Only Know Men: The Rescue of Jews in France during the Holocaust.   Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2007.

 Lazare, Lucien. Dictionnaire des Justes de France. Préface de Jacques Chirac. Paris:          Editions Fayard, 2003. English translation: Lazare, Lucien, Israel Gutman, and        Sara Bender. The Encyclopedia of the Righteous Among Nations: Rescuers of the          Jews during the Holocaust. France. Jersusalem: Yad Vashem, 2003.

 Lorenzi, Jean-Louis and Patrick Cabenel. “A Propos de La Colline aux mille enfants:         entretien entre Jean-Louis Lorenzi et Patrick Cabenel. (1994). Bulletin de la      Société de l’Histoire du Protestantisme Français 154 (Avril-Mais-Juin, 2008),        219-224.

 Maillebouis, Christian. La montagne protestante: pratiques chrétiennes sociales dans la      région du Mazet-Saint-Voy, 1920-1940. Lyon: Editions Olivétan, 2005.

 Mayer, Roland, ed., C.F.D. 70 bis: Spécial 70ème anniversaire du Collège-Lycée   Cévenol. Le Chambon-sur-Lignon: Edition AACC [Association des Anciens du           Collège Cévenol], 2009. 48 pages.  (C.F.D. [for “Ça file doucement] is the        student-run magazine of the Collège and appeared regularly (96 issues) from          March 1946 to June 1972. The full run of the magazine is now available online in pdf format at the AACC site, http://www.collegecevenol.org/ and at           http://www.pasteur.ch/cfd/ This special issue commemorates the 70^th Anniversary     meeting in May 2009 and contains interviews, short testimonials, and         recollections about the Collège.)

 Mayer, Roland and Catherine Kuntz, eds. C.F.D. 70 ter. Le Chambon-sur-Lignon:            Edition AACC [Association des Anciens du Collège Cévenol], 2010. 52 pages. (A             followup to the “70 bis” special issue, this “70 ter” issue provides a “compte       rendu du 70ème anniversaire” in the form of interviews, articles, and photographs    that document the 70th anniversary meeting.)

 McIntyre, Michael. “Altruism, Collective Action, and Rationality: The Case of Le             Chambon.” Polity 27.4 (1995), 537-557.

 Menut, Georges. Le Chambon sur Lignon, un village pas comme les autres. Le       Chambon-sur-Lignon: Editions SHM (Société de l’Histoire du Montagne), 1995.

Merlant, Philippe. “Oasis ou Campus: Le collège protestant de Chambon-sur-Lignon.”       Autrement 42 (1982), 127-133.

Paldiel, Mordecai. The Path of the Righteous: Gentile Rescuers of Jews During the             Holocaust. Hoboken NJ: KTAV Publishing, 1993.

 _____. “The Righteous Among the Nations at Yad Vashem.” The Journal of Holocaust    Education 7.1-2 (1998), 45-66.

 Pearson, Judith L. The Wolves at the Door. The True Story of America’s Greatest Female Spy. Guilford CT: The Lyons Press, 2005.

Plazas-Sanchez, Manuel. L'incroyable liberté: Un enfant sur les chemins de l'exil de            l'Espagne en guerre au Plateau entre Ardèche et Haute-Loire. Le Cheylard:             Editions Dolmazon, 2006.

 Poujol, Jacques. Protestants dans la France en guerre 1939-1945. Dictionnaire      thématique et biographique. Paris: Editions de Paris / Diffusion Harmonia Mundi,         2000.

Poujol, Jacques, Philippe Joutard, and Patrick Cabanel. Cévennes, terre de refuge 1940-     1944. Montpellier: Presses du Languedoc, 1994.

 Raïssac, Roger de. Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, Haute-Loire (43). Colmar-Ingersheim:           Editions S.A.E.P., 1974.

Rochat, François and André Modigliani. "The Ordinary Quality of Resistance: from          Milgram's Laboratory to the Village of Le Chambon." Journal of Social Issues           51.3 (1995), 195-210.

 Rose, Peter Isaac. ed. The Dispossessed: An Anatomy of Exile. Foreword by Liv Ullman.   Amherst MA: U of Massachusetts P, 2004.

 Samson, Otto. Recommencements II (1947-1973). Grenoble: Self-published / Auto-           édition, 2000.

 Sauvage, Pierre. “A Most Persistent Haven: Le Chambon-sur-Lignon.” Moment (October 1983), 31-37.

 Sauvage, Pierre, with Magda Trocmé, Philip Hallie, Hans Solomon, Hanne Liebmann,       Rudy Appel. "Le Chambon." In Carol Rittner and Sondra Myers, eds., The     Courage to Care: Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust (New York: New York      UP, 1986), 99-121.

 Siekierski, Denise. MiDor LeDor: De génération en génération. Préface de Philippe           Joutard. Paris: L’Harmattan, 2005.

 Stupp, François. Réfugiés au pays des Justes: Araules 1942-1944. 4ème édition revue et    augmentée. Saint-Julien-Chapteuil: Editions du Roure, 2008 [1997].

Terestchenko, Michel. Un si fragile vernis d’humanité: banalité du mal, banalité du bien.   Paris: Editions La Découverte / M.A.U.S.S., 2005.

 Trocmé, Jacques. Histoire des débuts du Collège Cévenol. Annemasse: Imprimerie Avenirs, 1972.

 Van der Zanden, Christine E. A Plateau of Hospitality: Jewish Refugee Life on the             Plateau Vivarais-Lignon. Dissertation: Clark University, 2003.

 Zeitoun, Sabine. Ces Enfants qu’il fallait sauver. Paris: Albin Michel, 1989.

II. Fiction, Memoir, and Young Adult Books

Boegner, Philippe. Ici on a aimé les Juifs. Paris: J.C. Lattès, 1982. (Roman-mémoire)

Chouraqui, André. L’amour fort comme la mort. Paris: Editions Laffont, 1990 (reprinted Paris: Editions du Rocher, 1998). Chouraqui’s mémoire in which he discusses his          time during World War II in Chaumargeais (a hamlet between Chambon and           Tence), and the Jewish studies school there called L’école de prophètes that he             organized along with Georges Vajda, a fellow refugee then teaching classical         languages at Cévenol.

Daley, Robert. The Innocents Within: A Novel. New York: Villard Books, 1999.

Darcissac, Roger and  André Trocmé, Pierre Saas, Maurice Lebrat, Bernard Joessel,           Margarethe Hamker, Hans Beutler. Autour du feu, contes pour grands et petits   [Around the Fire: Tales for the Old and Young]. Saint-Etienne: Imprimerie de la          Loire, 1948. (Narratives of children rescued by the Secours Suisse [Swiss Aid] in   Chambon, told as children’s tales).         

DeSaix, Deborah Durland and Karen Gray Ruelle. Hidden on the Mountain: Stories of       Children Sheltered from the Nazis in Le Chambon. New York: Holiday House,          2007. (Young Adult non-fiction, with many period photographs of the pensions               and hidden children. Presents the stories of several children hidden in Chambon         and at the Collège during the war years. The oral-history interviews on which the   book is based are listed in the book’s bibliography.).

Draper, Allison Stark. Pastor André Trocmé: Spiritual Leader of the French Village Le      Chambon. New York: The Rosen Publishing Group, 2001. (Young-adult account          of Trocmé’s life and Chambon in the 1940s).

Halter, Marek. La force du Bien.  Paris: Editions Robert Laffont, 1995. English      translation: Stories of Deliverance: Speaking with Men and Women who Rescued            Jews from the Holocaust. Tr. Michel Bernard. Chicago: Open Court Press, 1998.       (A collection of rescue stories).

_____. Les Justes, ces héros inconnus. Paris: Larousse, 2010.

Kustanowitz, Esther. The Hidden Children of the Holocaust: Teens Who Hid from the        Nazis. New York: Rosen Publishing Group, 1999. (Young Adult nonfiction,   includes the story of a girl hidden in Chambon).

Leapman, Michael. Witnesses to the War: Eight True-Life Stories of Nazi Persecution.         London: Viking-Penguin, 1998. (Young adult non-fiction, includes the story of a        girl hidden in Chambon).

Lecomte, François. Jamais je n’aurai quinze ans. Paris: Editions le Manuscrit, 2005.          English translation: I Will Never Be Fourteen Years Old: Le Chambon-sur-      Lignon and My Second Life. Tr. Jacques Trocmé. Wayne PA: Beach Lloyd              Publishers, 2009. (A memoir).

Matas, Carol. Greater Than Angels. New York: Simon Pulse / Simon & Schuster Books    for Young Readers, 1999.  French translation: Une Lumière dans la nuit: Les     enfants de Chambon. Tr. Marie-Pierre and Nicolas Bay. Paris: Hachette, 1999.           (Young Adult Fiction)

Poliakov, Léon. L’Auberge des musicians: Mémoires. Paris: Mazarine, 1981.

Rubenstein, Béatrice and Jean-Louis Lorenzi, with the collaboration de Gilles Lambert.     La Colline aux Mille Enfants. Paris: Presses de la Cité, 1994.

Steiner, Connie Colker. Shoes for Amélie. Illustrated by Denis Rodier. Montréal: Lobster Press, 2001.  (Fictionalized children’s book, the story of a hidden child in Le       Chambon).

Zalberg, Carole. Chez eux: roman. Paris: Editions Phébus, 2004. (Young Adult fiction).

Zapruder, Alexandra, ed. Salvaged Pages: Young Writers’ Diaries of the Holocaust. New Haven: Yale UP, 2002. (Young Adult non-fiction, includes excerpts from the          diaries of two hidden children in Le Chambon, Elizabeth Kaufmann Koenig and       Peter Feigl).

III. Film

Barnett, Barbara P. and Eileen M. Angelini. La France divisée. Rosemont PA: The            Agnes Irwin School Holocaust Project, 2002. 36 minutes. Documentary Film.

Dopff, Paul. 70 ans du Collège Cévenol. Le Chambon-sur-Lignon: Edition AACC            [Association des Anciens du Collège Cévenol]. 82 minutes. Documentary film on       the 70th anniversary reunion of Pentecost, 2009. 2010.

Gardner, Robert. The Courage to Care. USA: United Way Productions, 1985. 29 minutes. Documentary film; Oscar-nominated in “short documentary” category, 1985.

Halter, Marek and Clara Halter. Tzedek, Les Justes. Paris: Kurtz Productions and others / Editions Montparnasse, 1995. 170 minutes. Documentary film; nominated for a        César Award in the “meilleur film à caractère documentaire” category, 1995.

Lorenzi, Jean-Louis Le Chambon: La Colline aux Mille Enfants / The Hill of the     Thousand Children. King Movies / Cameras Continentales, France 2, France 3 and others, 1994. 118 minutes. Made-for-Television fictionalized feature film;    International Emmy Award, Drama Category, 1996.

Sauvage, Pierre. Weapons of the Spirit / Les armes de l'esprit. USA/France: Chambon         Foundation, 1987. 90 minutes. Documentary film; Aired in the U.S. by PBS; Los Angeles Film Critics Association Special Award, 1987.

Vella, Pierre. Le Cévenol. France: France 3 télévision, 2010. 30 minutes. Documentary      film; first broadcast 25 April, 2010.

IV. Unpublished Manuscripts and Papers

Note on Alexander Grothendieck and the Collège Cévenol: Grothendieck wrote two long, unfinished manuscript memoir-reflections which circulated in typescript photocopies for many years and are now available on the Internet. He discusses his time at the Collège briefly in both of these texts. For web files of both typescripts, see:             http://people.math.jussieu.fr/~leila/grothendieckcircle/recoltesetc.php

Grothendieck, Alexander. La Clef des Songes (The Key to Dreams), 1987. 315 pages.

_____. Récoltes et Semailles (Harvestings and Sowings), 1983-85. 1,252 pages, plus

            approximately 200 pages of introduction, commentary, and summaries.       Discussion of the Collège and Chambon in Chapter 2.1, “La magie des choses”       and Chapter 18.2.10.1. “(a) La violence du juste.”

Lévy-Coblentz, Françoise. Il y a trois fois vingt ans [Three Times Twenty Years Ago].         2002. 234 pages. Private collection (France). A manuscript memoir of the       experiences of a Jewish Alsatian family from their flight from Alsace in 1940-43       to their time in Chambon and at the Nouvelle Ecole Cévenole 1943-45. A small     edition was self-published by the author in Strasbourg.

Maber, Lesley. Bundle of the Living. Draft 4. Swarthmore College Peace Collection,          housed in the Papers of André and Magda Trocmé, Box 3.     (Maber was in             Chambon and teaching at the Collège from the 1940s to the 1960s; this             manuscript is a memoir about those experiences.)

_____. Les fagots chambonnais. Private collection (France).  Another version or draft of   Maber’s memoir concerning resistance and the early phase of the Collège.

Theis, Edouard and Antoinette Lavondès. “30 ans d’histoire du Collège Cévenol.”  56      pages by Theis; 21 pages by Lavondès. Written 1964-68. Private Collection    (France).

Trocmé, André and Magda Trocmé. Papers of André and Magda Trocmé. Swarthmore      College Peace Collection. 7.7 linear feet, including André Trocmé’s      Autobiographie and Magda Trocmé’s “Souvenirs.”

_____. André Trocmé Papers. Reference code: 996.2. World Council of Churches             Library and Archives. Ecumenical Centre, 7 route de Morillons, CH-1211 Geneva             2.