A Daring Rescue in Nazi Paris. SUZANNE'S CHILDREN. Anne Nelson

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        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 was born into the Belgian Catholic elite and married into the countrys 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 lifes 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.

2017. Hard cover with dust cover, 318 pages. Very good condition. Tightly bound, neat and clean. Parcel under 1kg.