Austrian Eric Schwam , who died at the end of last year at the age of 90, bequeathed most of his fortune to the French commune of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon.
During the Second World War, the Jewish Shvam family, who fled the horrors of Nazism to France from Austria, was hidden in a village school. After the defeat of the Nazis, Eric lived in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon until 1950 and married a local girl there, and then returned to his homeland.
The executors of the will of the deceased said that the villagers can spend his money on educational and youth projects.
In the village of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, whose residents are marked by the Israeli memorial center for the Catastrophe of World Jewry “Yad Vashem” as “Righteous Among the Nations”, during the Second World War, more than 2,500 Jews from different European countries received refuge.
