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by Maggie Paxson

  • Narrated by: Maggie Paxson
  • Length: 14 hrs and 20 mins
  • Release date: 08-13-19
  • Language: English

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 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

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Author

Maggie Paxson

Language

English

Length

14 hrs and 20 mins

Narrated by

Maggie Paxson

Release date

08-13-19

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