The French clergy excelled in such rescue tactics. One man in particular. Jesuit Father Pierre Chaillet. became the hero of the French Resistance. Hundreds of Jewish children owe their lives to this man. who sheltered many children in his monastery. He hid four children found shivering and starving in a cave. He saved 30 others by providing them with forged Aryan papers and homes among the French peasants. He rescued 12 more whose parents had been deported. Father Chaillet did not wait for the desperate children to come to him. He combed the streets of Lyons to find even more in need of protection.
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