A Jewish Response to ICE: Lessons from an Occupied French Village

A Jewish Response to ICE: Lessons from an Occupied French Village

My mother spent her early childhood in a German-occupied French village during World War II. She and her parents lived underground as Catholics, protected by the French Resistance. My mother did not know she was Jewish until 1947 when, at the age of nine, she arrived safely in New York Harbor.  This family history has come to mind as I’ve watched the Trump administration’s brutal, often-lawless arrest, detention and deportation of immigrants fro…