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Suzanne's children : a daring rescue in Nazi Paris / Anne Nelson.

by Nelson, Anne.

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Simon & Schuster, 2017.

Spaak, Suzanne.

Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust -- France -- Paris -- Biography.

9781501105326 (hc.)

9781501105333 (pbk.)

xvi, 318 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustratons ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"A story of courage in the face of evil. Suzanne Spaak risked and gave her life to save hundreds of Jewish children from deportation from Nazi Paris to Auschwitz. She was born 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 pursuing a 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"--Provided by publisher.

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