http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/26/opinion/everyday-resistance-in-history.html 2016-09-26 14:45:19 ‘Everyday Resistance’ in History Many people helping refugees today may not think of themselves as heroes, much like those who aided Jews during the Nazi era. === To the Editor: While Nicholas Kristof (“ I came to know of this during the late 1950s in Hanover, Germany, where my former wife’s family was visited by a young Israeli man whose family had once lived in the same apartment building. He had come to thank her family for the help they and others in the building had given him, as a small child, and his family in leaving Germany. The German families never thought of themselves as heroes even as they, as Socialists, had resisted Nazism in small ways throughout the war. I don’t think they would have told me about what they had done; I came to know only because I was present when the young Israeli visited. News reporting on the apparently dominant mood in the world today against refugees most likely does not take into account the “everyday resistance” that may be unobtrusively as active as it was in Nazi Germany. AMADIO ARBOLEDA Tokyo