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Pierre Sauvage is a French-American documentary filmmaker and lecturer, who was a child survivor of the Holocaust as well as a child of Holocaust survivors. Sauvage has been described by Tablet Magazine in 2012 as "a filmmaker of rare moral perception". He is also 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 with a specific focus on the United States and the Holocaust.