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100 1 _aNelson, Anne,
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245 1 0 _aCodename Suzette :
_ban extraordinary story of resistance and rescue in Nazi Paris /
_cAnne Nelson.
264 1 _aCrows Nest, NSW :
_bAllen & Unwin,
_c2017.
300 _axvi, 319 pages, [16] pages of plates :
_bphotographs, map ;
_c24 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
500 _a"An extraordinary story of resistance and rescue in Nazi Paris"--Cover.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 _aSuzanne Spaak was born into the Belgian Catholic ruling class 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 Renee Magritte. Having moved to Paris in the late 1930s she appeared to part of the elite. Her neighbour was Collette, France's most famous living writer, and Jean Cocteau was part of her circle of intimates. But Suzanne was living a double life. 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 honoured in Israel as one of the Righteous Among Nations.
600 1 0 _aSpaak, Suzanne.
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650 0 _aHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
_zFrance
_zParis.
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650 0 _aWorld War, 1939-1945
_xChildren
_zFrance
_zParis.
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650 0 _aHidden children (Holocaust)
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_zParis.
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