Editing Alexander Grothendieck (section)

=== World War II ===
In May 1939, Grothendieck was put on a train in Hamburg for France. Shortly afterward his father was interned in [[Camp Vernet|Le Vernet]].<ref name="Aczel" /> He and his mother were then interned in various camps from 1940 to 1942 as "undesirable dangerous foreigners."<ref>Piotr Pragacz, 'Notes on the Life and Work of Alexander Grothendieck,' in Piotr Pragacz (ed.), [https://books.google.com/books?id=9l4w1rqCKVIC&pg=PR11 ''Topics in Cohomological Studies of Algebraic Varieties: Impanga Lecture Notes,''] Springer Science & Business Media, 2006 pp-xi-xxviii p.xii.</ref> The first camp was the [[Rieucros Camp]], where his mother may have contracted the tuberculosis that would eventually cause her death in 1957. While there, Grothendieck managed to attend the local school, at [[Mende, Lozère|Mende]]. Once, he managed to escape from the camp, intending to assassinate [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]].<ref name="Aczel" /> Later, his mother Hanka was transferred to the [[Gurs internment camp]] for the remainder of [[World War II]].<ref name ="Aczel">Amir D. Aczel,[https://books.google.com/books?id=fRCH-at7wgYC&pg=PA12 ''The Artist and the Mathematician,''] Basic Books, 2009 pp.8ff.pp.8–15.</ref> Grothendieck was permitted to live separated from his mother.<ref name ="Viale">Luca Barbieri Viale, 'Alexander Grothendieck:entusiasmo e creatività,' in C. Bartocci, R. Betti, A. Guerraggio, R. Lucchetti (eds.,) [https://books.google.com/books?id=nx2J7hqZ43EC&pg=PA237 ''Vite matematiche: Protagonisti del '900, da Hilbert a Wiles,''] Springer Science & Business Media, 2007 pp.237–249 p.237.</ref>

In the village of [[Le Chambon-sur-Lignon]], he was sheltered and hidden in local boarding houses or [[Pension (lodging)|pension]]s, although he occasionally had to seek refuge in the woods during Nazi raids, surviving at times without food or water for several days.<ref name="Aczel" /><ref name="Viale" />

His father was arrested under the [[Vichy anti-Jewish legislation]], and sent to the [[Drancy internment camp]], and then handed over by the [[Vichy France|French Vichy government]] to the Germans to be sent to be murdered at the [[Auschwitz concentration camp]] in 1942.<ref name="nytob" />{{sfn|Ruelle|2007|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=B3A1bjOkOaEC&pg=PA35 35]}}

In Le Chambon, Grothendieck attended the Collège Cévenol (now known as the [[Le Collège-Lycée Cévenol International]]), a unique secondary school founded in 1938 by local Protestant pacifists and anti-war activists. Many of the refugee children hidden in Le Chambon attended Collège Cévenol, and it was at this school that Grothendieck apparently first became fascinated with mathematics.<ref name="Liberation-Douroux-Obit-2014-11-13" />

In 1990, for risking their lives to rescue Jews, the entire village was recognized as "[[Righteous Among the Nations]]".