The city of Châteaumeillant will join the network of Fair Cities and Villages of France, this Friday, June 24. The honorary ceremony will be presided over by Yad Vashem, the committee that rewards municipalities that have hidden Jews during WWII.
“This commune has had the privilege of having among its members exceptional women and men who, at the risk of their lives, decided to save, hide, feed and house people who were guilty of being born of jewish religionexplains François Guguenheim, vice-president of the Yad Vashem committee. They took on this immense responsibility of risking their lives by responding only to their hearts.”.
It’s a lesson in civics
Châteaumeillant thus joins the network of Fair Towns and Villages of France, which has 141 other member municipalities, in particular Saint-Amand-Montrond. “We have a slogan, it’s that memory has a futurecontinues the vice-president of the committee. We are counting on these municipalities which have Righteous Among the Nations to remind the population of today and tomorrow, and particularly the younger generations..