Pierre Sauvage, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Pierre Sauvage

French-American documentary filmmaker and lecturer

Date of Birth: 25-Mar-1944

Place of Birth: Le Chambon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

Profession: film director

Nationality: United States, France

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Pierre Sauvage is a French/American documentary filmmaker and lecturer, who was a child survivor of the Holocaust and a child of Holocaust survivors.
Described by Tablet Magazine in 2012 as "a filmmaker of rare moral perception", Sauvage is the President of the Chambon Foundation, which he founded in 1982.
A 501(c)3 nonprofit public charity, the Chambon Foundation was the first educational foundation committed to "exploring and communicating the necessary and challenging lessons of hope intertwined with the Holocaust's unavoidable lessons of despair." In 2005, the Varian Fry Institute was established as a division of the Chambon Foundation; its specific focus is on America and the Holocaust.