The Plateau

During World War II, French villagers offered safe harbor to countless strangers - mostly children - as they fled for their lives. The same place offers refuge to migrants today. Why? In a remote pocket of Nazi-held France, ordinary people rescued hundreds, maybe thousands, of strangers fleeing the Holocaust, mostly Jewish children, at mortal risk to themselves. Was this a fluke of history, or something more? Certainties shaken by a decade of fieldwork in strife-torn places, anthopologist Maggie Paxson arrived on the Plateau to explore this phenomenon. What are the customs and traits that…