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Books with author Joanne Nelson

  • Suzanne's Children: A Daring Rescue in Nazi Paris

    Anne Nelson

    Hardcover (Simon & Schuster, Oct. 17, 2017)
    “Immersive...Suzanne’s Children vividly dramatizes the stakes of acting morally in a time of brutality.”—The Wall Street Journal 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.
  • Suzanne's Children: A Daring Rescue in Nazi Paris

    Anne Nelson

    Paperback (Simon & Schuster, Oct. 30, 2018)
    One 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” (The Wall Street Journal).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. 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. Suzanne’s Children is the “dogged…page-turning account” (Kirkus Reviews) 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” (Booklist). 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. Suzanne Spaak is honored in Israel as one of the Righteous Among Nations. Nelson’s “heartfelt story is almost a model for how popular history should be written; it will satisfy lovers of history, Jewish history in particular” (Library Journal).
  • Neighborhood Soup

    Joanne Nelson

    Paperback (Modern Curriculum Pr, June 1, 1990)
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  • Peanut Butter and Jelly

    Joanne Nelson

    Paperback (Modern Curriculum Pr, June 1, 1989)
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  • Summer and Winter

    JoAnne Nelson

    Paperback (J. B. Lippincott Company, March 15, 1974)
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  • How Tall Are You

    Joanne Nelson

    Paperback (McClanahan Book Co, June 1, 1990)
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  • A tiger came to dinner

    JoAnne Nelson

    Paperback (Modern Curriculum, )
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  • Hiccups

    JoAnne Nelson

    Paperback (J. B. Lippincott Company, March 15, 1974)
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  • Surprise for Benjamin Bear

    Joanne Nelson

    Paperback (Modern Curriculum Pr, June 1, 1989)
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  • Little Cub and the Bees' Nest

    JoAnne Nelson

    Unknown Binding (J. B. Lippincott Company, March 15, 1974)
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  • Follow Me

    Joanne Nelson

    Paperback (Modern Curriculum Pr, June 1, 1989)
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  • Backyard Bugs

    Joanne Nelson

    Paperback (Modern Curriculum Pr, June 1, 1990)
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