Suzanne's Children: A Daring Rescue in Nazi Paris
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Suzanne Spaak 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. Then, 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.
Suzanne's Children is the "dogged...page-turning account" (Kirkus Reviews) of this incredible story of courage in the face of evil. "Anne Nelson is superb at showing the upheavals in Europe since WWI through vivid, illuminating details...and she also masterfully describes the incremental changes in the Jews' plight under the Occupation" (Booklist). It was during the final year of the Occupation when 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. Nelson's "heartfelt story is almost a model for how popular history should be written; it will satisfy lovers of history, Jewish history in particular" (Library Journal).
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Anne Nelson. (2017). Suzanne's Children: A Daring Rescue in Nazi Paris. Simon & Schuster.
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- One of the untold stories of the Holocaust—the nail-biting drama of Suzanne Spaak, who risked and gave her life to save hundreds of Jewish children from deportation from Nazi Paris to Auschwitz "vividly dramatizes the stakes of acting morally in a time of brutality" (The Wall Street Journal).
Suzanne Spaak 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. Then, 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.
Suzanne's Children is the "dogged...page-turning account" (Kirkus Reviews) of this incredible story of courage in the face of evil. "Anne Nelson is superb at showing the upheavals in Europe since WWI through vivid, illuminating details...and she also masterfully describes the incremental changes in the Jews' plight under the Occupation" (Booklist). It was during the final year of the Occupation when 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. Nelson's "heartfelt story is almost a model for how popular history should be written; it will satisfy lovers of history, Jewish history in particular" (Library Journal). - reviews
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Resurrected from obscurity, the life of a remarkable Brussels-born woman who used her prominent status in Nazi-occupied Paris to shelter orphaned Jewish children.In a dogged work of research, Nelson (Red Orchestra: The Story of the Berlin Underground and the Circle of Friends Who Resisted Hitler, 2009, etc.), a playwright journalist who teaches at the Columbia School of International and Public Affairs, illuminates the brave and tragically short life of Suzanne Spaak, nee Lorge, whose dangerous work hiding and finding shelter for Jewish orphans during the war in Paris brought imprisonment and death in 1944. As the daughter of one of Belgium's leading financiers, Spaak was in the right place when the Germans invaded in June 1940. Inhabiting a beautiful apartment in the Palais Royal full of artwork by the family's protege painter Renee Magritte, the Spaaks, though unofficially separated (her husband was living with another woman), were in a unique position to aid the Solidarite network, which provided aid to Jews being rounded up, arrested, and deported to concentration camps. It was Suzanne, however, who took her work helping with forged documents to a new and dangerous level, co-founding an organization called the National Movement Against Racism in 1941. Working with various churches, she and her colleagues knocked on doors to spread the word about the roundups, soliciting money from her rich friends and even her famous neighbor, Colette. In the many Paris orphanages, Jewish children were in constant danger of being rounded up, and Spaak did the underground work of creating papers for them and secreting them out to homes in the countryside. Spaak's story is all the more poignant because of the role her own husband played in obscuring her legacy after the war, and Nelson does a valiant job of bringing together the complex threads of this story. A page-turning account of the courageous actions of a woman recognized in 1985 by Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations.COPYRIGHT(2017) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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While researching Red Orchestra: The Story of the Berlin Underground and the Circle of Friends Who Resisted Hitler (2009), Nelson (international & public affairs, Columbia Univ.) came across an intriguing photograph of a woman named Suzanne Spaak within the memoirs of a Soviet agent. What Nelson learned of Suzanne's background stoked her interest even more--a Belgian national who married into the political and social elite of her country, but a resident of Paris during the Occupation who was later executed by German officials in the last days of World War II. Nelson met with Suzanne's daughter in 2009. "Everyone said Mama was a Soviet spy...I wouldn't care if she was, but she was something completely different." This is the story of Suzanne; a heroine who saved more than 100 Jewish children from certain death and paid for it with her life, a martyr honored decades later by Israel as one of the Righteous Among Nations. VERDICT This heartfelt story is almost a model for how popular history should be written; it will satisfy lovers of history, Jewish history in particular.--David Keymer, Cleveland
Copyright 2017 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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