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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 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.

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A riveting book about a truly heroic woman in a Paris of resignation and shame. A must read !-- Diane von Furstenberg, New York Times bestselling author

"A riveting book about a truly heroic woman in a Paris of resignation and shame. A must read !-- ""Diane von Furstenberg, New York Times bestselling author"""

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Anne Nelson is an acclaimed journalist, playwright, and lecturer. She has received numerous awards and grants, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and a New Harmony Dramatists Fellowship. Her articles have been published widely, and she is the author of The Guys, one of the first major plays to address the September 11 attacks. She also served as a war correspondent in El Salvador and Guatemala from 1980 to 1983, and her articles appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and many other publications. Her first book, Murder Under Two Flags: The United States, Puerto Rico, and the Cerro Maravilla Cover-up, was made into a feature film. Anne Nelson is an acclaimed journalist, playwright, and lecturer. She has received numerous awards and grants, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and a New Harmony Dramatists Fellowship. Her articles have been published widely, and she is the author of The Guys, one of the first major plays to address the September 11 attacks. She also served as a war correspondent in El Salvador and Guatemala from 1980 to 1983, and her articles appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and many other publications. Her first book, Murder Under Two Flags: The United States, Puerto Rico, and the Cerro Maravilla Cover-up, was made into a feature film.

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