Pierre Sauvage (M / France, 1944), Holocaust survivor
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Pierre Sauvage (M / France, 1944), Holocaust survivor
- KEYWORDS : <Chambon-sur-Lignon> -- <United States> <France>
Biography
The son of prominent French journalist and author Léo Sauvage, Pierre was born in 1944 at Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, where his family was hiding during the Holocaust.
He was 4 when he and his parents moved to New York City in 1948. It was only at the age of 18 that he learned that he and his family were Jewish and survivors of the Holocaust. He returned to Paris to pursue his studies. After working briefly as a journalist like his father, he became an acclaimed filmmaker. In 1982 he founded the Chambon Foundation.