02410cam a2200337 i 4500 324143363 TxAuBib 20170915120000.0 170224s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2017008567 9781501105326 26.00 1501105329 26.00 eng rda TxAuBib rda Nelson, Anne, 1954- Suzanne's children [BOOK] : a daring rescue in Nazi Paris / Anne Nelson. First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. New York : Simon & Schuster, [2017] xvi, 318 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. "A story of courage in the face of evil. The tense drama of Suzanne Spaak who risked and gave her life to save hundreds of Jewish children from deportation from Nazi Paris to Auschwitz. This is one of the untold stories of the Holocaust. Suzanne Spaak wasborn into the Belgian Catholic elite and married into the country's leading political family. Her brother-in-law was the Foreign Minister and her husband Claude was a playwright and patron of the painter Renée Magritte. In Paris in the late 1930s her friendship with a Polish Jewish refugee led her to her life's purpose. When France fell and the Nazis occupied Paris, she joined the Resistance. She used her fortune and social status to enlist allies among wealthy Parisians and church groups. Under the eyes of the Gestapo, Suzanne and women from the Jewish and Christian resistance groups "kidnapped" hundreds of Jewish children to save them from the gas chambers. In the final year of the Occupation Suzanne was caught in the Gestapo dragnet that was pursuinga Soviet agent she had aided. She was executed shortly before the liberation of Paris. Suzanne Spaak is honored in Israel as one of the Righteous Among Nations". 20171024. Spaak, Suzanne 1905-1944. World War, 1939-1945 Jews Rescue France Paris. World War, 1939-1945 Jews France Biography. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) France. Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust France Paris Biography. Biographies.