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In a remote pocket of Nazi-held France, ordinary people risked their lives to rescue many hundreds of strangers, mostly Jewish children. Was this a fluke of history, or something more? Anthropologist Maggie Paxson, certainties shaken by years of studying strife, arrives on the Plateau to explore this phenomenon: What are the traits that make a group choose selflessness?
In this beautiful, wind-blown place, Paxson discovers a tradition of offering refuge that dates back centuries. But it is the story of a distant relative that provides the beacon for which she has been searching. Restless and idealistic, Daniel Trocmé had found a life of meaning and purpose—or it found him—sheltering a group of children on the Plateau, until the Holocaust came for him, too. Paxson's journey into past and present turns up new answers, new questions, and a renewed faith in the possibilities for us all, in an age when global conflict has set millions adrift. Riveting, multilayered, and intensely personal, The Plateau is a deeply inspiring journey into the central conundrum of our time.
Cover photograph: (Detail of Jewish youth) United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Jack Lewin
Illustration based on portrait of Daniel Trocmé from United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Robert Trocme
- Maggie Paxson - Author
- Maggie Paxson - Narrator
OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9781984888570
- File size: 413109 KB
- Release date: August 13, 2019
- Duration: 14:20:38
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- ISBN: 9781984888570
- File size: 413165 KB
- Release date: August 13, 2019
- Duration: 14:25:38
- Number of parts: 16
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