
Suzanne’s Children: An Untold Story of Rescue and Resistance
To mark the anniversary of the liberation of Paris, join us for a presentation from award-winning author Anne Nelson about her account of Suzanne Spaak, Righteous Among Nations.
• Presentation (in English),
• Bilingual Q&A
• Book sale and signing
One of the untold stories of the Holocaust—this nail-biting drama of a woman 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).
About the Author
Anne Nelson also authored Red Orchestra: The Story of the Berlin Underground and the Circle of Friends Who Resisted Hitler; Murder Under Two Flags: The US, Puerto Rico, and the Cerro Maravilla Cover-up; and The Guys: A Play. She is a graduate of Yale University and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She teaches at the Columbia School of International and Public Affairs in New York City.
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Canadian Friends of Rabbis for Human Rights in partnership with the Montreal Holocaust Museum, the Labour Zionist Circle, the Jewish Public Library and the Jewish Community Foundation.