Held on November 15, 2017
From 1939 to 1945, the villagers of the Plateau Vivarais-Lignon, France, hid, protected, and ultimately rescued thousands of Jews from the Nazis at great peril to their own lives. Their nearly unparalleled actions during the Holocaust are part of this community's long history of taking in persecuted outsiders of diverse backgrounds. Anthropologist Dr. Margaret Paxson discusses how this community handled the shelter of outsiders. Using the archive collection of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's oral histories and other official records, Dr. Paxson offers a comprehensive and fascinating narrative of an entire community effort towards resistance and rescue, the effects of which both resonate and remain celebrated today.
Anthropologist Dr. Margaret Paxson is a Research Fellow at Georgetown University's Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs. Her first book, Solvyovo: The Story of Memory in a Russian Village, was named a 2006 “Book of the Year” by Salon.com, is a Research Fellow at Georgetown University's Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs.
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