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central file of Jewish children, 135
children in care of, 85, 87, 88, 97, 107–8, 115, 119 (see also specific orphanages)
children taken from and gassed, 137–39, 221–23, 223n
Gestapo arrests at, 175
refusal to warn Jews of arrest, 82, 88
Rothschild Hospital and, 116, 120
Suzanne rescues children from, 141, 145–55
underground of, 95, 140n, 143, 153, 244
Vel d’Hiv and, 88, 94–95
women’s march on, 119
United States
Hitler declares war on, 48
internment of Jewish exiles, 15n
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, 48
Nazi extermination of Jews and, 125
restrictive immigration laws, 10
US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 207, 242–43, 243n, 268n2
US Office of Strategic Services (OSS), 182
Vallat, Xavier, 49
Vel d’Hiv, 83, 83n, 85–95, 99, 103, 107, 113, 135, 140, 151, 164, 252
censorship about, 93–94, 94n
children arrested, 88, 89, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 97–98, 102, 244
Grande Rafle, 86, 88, 101, 113, 116, 118
Paris fire chief Pierret’s compassion, 92–93
Vénissieux (internment camp), 103
Jewish children’s rescue, 103–4, 104n, 106
Vergara, Éliane (Bruston), xv
Vergara, Marcelle, xv, 174
Vergara, Paul, xv, 143–44, 155, 167, 168, 172, 174, 175, 188, 244–45, 254
house in Faute d’Argent, Normandy, 162
Jewish children’s rescue and, 143, 143n, 147, 151, 154, 162, 246
Suzanne’s funeral and, 238
Vergara, Sylvain, xv, 143, 163, 174, 254
Vichy government, 24, 25–26, 55–57, 84, 103, 104, 126
CGQJ and, 38
deportations and, 31, 49, 62, 84–86, 136
Jewish children, question of, 79, 87–88, 95, 97–98, 107
liberation of Paris and, 226–27
Cardinal Suhard and, 100–101
Vivre, aimer avec Auschwitz au cæur (Dassa), 245
Walach, Aron, 118
Walach, Elie, 118
Wannsee Conference, 59–60, 83
Warsaw, Poland, 19, 23, 35, 97, 111, 169
Weill, Julien, 140
Weill-Hallé, Benjamin, 140n
Winter, Georgie de, xiv, 75, 184, 185, 188, 191, 218, 219–20, 223–24, 284n9
World Committee of Women against War and Fascism, 4
World War II
Allied advance across France, 219, 220
Allied foothold in North Africa, 125–26
Anglo-Soviet alliance, 132
Battle of Stalingrad, 127, 129, 166, 169
BBC broadcasts, 56–57
Belgium surrenders, 17
Britain and France declare war on Germany, 13
British air raids on Germany, 127
coup attempt against Hitler, 219
D-Day landings, 210, 215
Dunkirk, 17, 23
France surrenders, 19
German aggression, 12, 13, 16, 19, 23
Germany-Soviet nonaggression pact, 11
Hitler declares war on the US, 48
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, 48
liberation of Brussels, 230
liberation of Paris, 224–26
Morse code, V for “Victory,” 56
“Phony War,” 14
Wozek, Hannah, 112–13
Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, 76
“Righteous Among the Nations,” 246
Yeo-Thomas, F. F. E., 282n2, 283n5
Yiddish-MOI, 27, 31, 35, 62, 102, 129, 154
Zeiler, Rudolf, 64
Zimmerman, Hersz, 63
Zola, Émile, 65n
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Names: Nelson, Anne, author.
Title: Suzanne’s children : a daring rescue in Nazi Paris / Anne Nelson.
Description: New York : Simon & Schuster, [2017] | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017008567 (print) | LCCN 2017010549 (ebook) | ISBN 9781501105326 (hardcover : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781501105333 (trade pbk. : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781501105340 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Spaak, Suzanne. | Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust—France—Paris—Biography.
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