{"product_id":"suzannes-children-a-daring-rescue-in-nazi-paris","title":"Suzanne's Children: A Daring Rescue in Nazi Paris","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eBy Anne Nelson \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne 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.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eSuzanne 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eSuzanne’s Children \u003c\/i\u003eis the “dogged…page-turning account” (\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e) 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” (\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e). 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003ePaperback\u003cbr\u003e336 pages\u003cbr\u003eSimon \u0026amp; Schuster, 2018\u003cbr\u003e5.5 x 1 x 8.38 inches\u003cbr\u003eISBN 9781501105333\u003cbr\u003eHistory, World War II\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"vendor-unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51443174277288,"sku":"9781501105333","price":17.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0175\/8594\/files\/Suzanne_s_Children_A_Daring_Rescue_in_Nazi_Paris_by_Anne_Nelson.jpg?v=1739299819","url":"https:\/\/neue-galerie-design-shop.myshopify.com\/products\/suzannes-children-a-daring-rescue-in-nazi-paris","provider":"Neue Galerie Design Shop \u0026 Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}