Codename Suzette

by Anne Nelson

  8. Ibid., 388.

  9. Bourgeois, L’Orchestre rouge, 467. Claude tried to find connections for Trepper in the Southern Zone and thought of Ruth Peters’s fifteen-year-old cousin, Antonia Lyon-Smith, a British girl who had been stranded in occupied France. Antonia wrote a note of introduction to a friend. The Gestapo discovered the note in Georgie de Winter’s possession, which led to Lyon-Smith’s arrest. She gave a colorful account of her time in Gestapo detention in her 1982 memoir, A Little Resistance (written under her married name, Antonia Hunt).

  10. Pilette Spaak interview.

  11. Trepper, The Great Game, 286.

  12. Cabanel, “La tentation d’une église confessante?” in Braunstein, ed., L’Oratoire du Louvre et les Protestants Parisiens, 251.

  13. Perrault, L’Orchestre rouge, 390.

  14. Trepper, The Great Game, 288.

  15. Perrault, L’Orchestre rouge, 393.

  16. Ibid., 388.

  17. Chertok, Memoires, 131.

  18. Ibid., 112.

  19. Ibid.

  20. Pannwitz, “CARETINA’s History of the Sonderkommando Rote Kapelle,” 32–33.

  21. Perrault, L’Orchestre rouge, 399.

  22. Camplan, Renouveau, 3.

  23. Pilette Spaak interview.

  24. Chertok, Memoires, 113–14. See also Perrault, L’Orchestre rouge, 401.

  | CHAPTER 14 | all saints’ day

  1. Milhaud and Milhaud, L’Entraide Temporaire, 25.

  2. Pilette Spaak interview.

  3. Paul (Bazou) Spaak, e-mail interview, February 21, 2012.

  4. Madeleine Legrand (Madeleine Grou-Radenez), À Fresnes (Paris: Éditions Stock, 1944), 11–12.

  5. Janine Spaak, Charles Spaak, mon mari (Paris: Éditions France-Empire, 1977), 124.

  6. Ibid., 129.

  7. Perrault, L’Orchestre rouge, 410.

  8. Pannwitz, “CARETINA’s History of the Sonderkommando Rote Kapelle,” 38.

  9. Henri Calet, Les Murs de Fresnes (Paris: Éditions Viviane Haley, 1993), 15.

  10. Ibid., 115.

  11. Thomas Childers, In the Shadows of War: An American Pilot’s Odyssey Through Occupied France and the Camps of Nazi Germany (New York: Henry Holt, 2002), 220.

  12. Legrand, À Fresnes, 25–26.

  13. Ibid., 32.

  14. Calet, Les Murs de Fresnes, 119.

  15. Perrault, L’Orchestre rouge, 330.

  16. Bourgeois, L’Orchestre rouge, 496.

  17. Perrault, L’Orchestre rouge, 423.

  18. Bourgeois, L’Orchestra rouge, 496.

  | CHAPTER 15 | the last train

  1. Ariouet, “Les enfants cachés pendant le seconde guerre mondiale aux sources d’une histoire clandestine.”

  2. “Interrogation of Honore,” SOE memorandum, November 20, 1943, National Archives, Kew, UK, HS9/94/7 C663083.

  3. Camplan, quoted in Dassa, Vivre, aimer avec Auschwitz au cœur, 123.

  4. M. R. D. Foot, SOE in France: An Account of the Work of the British Special Operations Executive in France, 1940–1944 (London: Frank Cass Publishers, 2004), 360. See also Pierre Tillet, “Tentative History of In/Exfiltrations into/from France during WWII from 1940 to 1945,” www.plan-sussex-1944.net/anglais/infiltrations_into_france.pdf.

  5. Pannwitz, “CARETINA’s History of the Sonderkommando Rote Kapelle,” 39.

  6. Pilette states that she never received such a doll from her mother. Pilette Spaak interview.

  7. Ibid.

  8. Perrault, L’Orchestre rouge, 439.

  9. Ibid., 432.

  10. Ibid., 435.

  11. Trepper wrote a highly dramatic account of the “great day” of the attack on the Rue de Courcelles in his memoirs. See Trepper, The Great Game, 325.

  12. Klarsfeld, French Children of the Holocaust, 89–91.

  13. Dassa, Vivre, aimer avec Auschwitz au cœur, 205–6.

  14. Ibid., 208.

  15. Paula Hyman, The Jews of Modern France (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998), 184.

  16. See Katy Hazan, “Les réseaux de sauvetage d’enfants, la face clandestine de l’UGIF,” www.ose-france.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Sauvetage-UGIF.pdf.

  17. Perrault, L’Orchestre rouge, 433.

  18. Ellie Pithers, “Who Was the Original Miss Dior?” Telegraph, November 12, 2013, http://fashion.telegraph.co.uk/beauty/news-features/TMG10443967/Who-was-the-original-Miss-Dior.html.

  19. Klarsfeld, French Children of the Holocaust, 92. See also Josephs, Swastika over Paris, 129.

  20. Marshall, The White Rabbit, 40, 48.

  21. “Activité du Groupe Medical du Mouvement National Contre le Racisme.”

  | CHAPTER 16 | liberation

  1. Perrault, L’Orchestre rouge, 436.

  2. Pilette Spaak interview.

  3. Perrault, L’Orchestre rouge, 437.

  4. Ibid.

  5. Pilette Spaak interview.

  6. Ibid.

  7. Dumoulin, Spaak, 256–57.

  8. Ibid., 258.

  9. Lauren Faulkner Rossi, Wehrmacht Priests (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015), 140, 309n52. See also “Franzosen geholfen: Ein Buch über Pfarrer Theodor Loevenich,” Rhein-Erft Rundschau, March 17, 2013, http://www.rundschau-online.de/region/rhein-erft/franzosen-geholfen-ein-buch-ueber-pfarrer-theodor-loevenich-5282192.

  10. René Closset, L’Aumonier de l’enfer: Franz Stock (Mulhouse, France: Éditions Salvator, 1965), 158–59.

  11. Jean-Pierre Guéno, Paroles des femmes: La liberté du regard (Paris: Radio France, 2007), 58–59.

  12. Childers, In the Shadows of War, 227.

  13. Pannwitz, “CARETINA’s History of the Sonderkommando Rote Kapelle,” 39.

  14. Dassa, Vivre, aimer avec Auschwitz au cœur, 135.

  15. Perrault, L’Orchestre rouge, 438.

  16. Trepper, Le Grand Jeu, 577. See also Trepper, The Great Game, 418.

  17. Perrault, L’Orchestre rouge, 439.

  18. Palliser interview.

  19. Pannwitz, “CARETINA’s History of the Sonderkommando Rote Kapelle,” 18.

  20. Ibid., 36.

  21. José Ainouz, Attention aux enfants! Les Orphelins de la Shoah de Montmorency, www.orphelins-shoah-montmorency.com/Site_Attention _aux_enfants/Note_dintention.html. See also Mordecai Paldiel, The Path of the Righteous: Gentile Rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust (Hoboken, NJ: KTAV Publishing House, 1993), 44.

  22. Cabanel, Histoire des Justes de France, 24.

  23. Ibid., 33.

  | CHAPTER 13 | the aftermath

  1. Claude Spaak, Théatre, volume 1 (Paris: Éditions la Tête de Feuilles, 1973). See also Robert Frickx and Raymond Trousson, Lettres Françaises de Belgique: Dictionnaire des Œuvres (Paris: Duculot, 1989), 214. The play also includes a young female character whose experience echoes the story of Ruth Peters’s teenage niece, Antonia Lyon-Smith. The conditions of her detention were particularly mild, thanks in large part to the German guard who fell in love with her.

  2. Jacques Decker, “‘Les Survivants’ de Claude Spaak, au Théatre du Parc, une Insistante Sonate,” Le Soir, June 2, 1995, http://archives.lesoir.be/-les-survivants-de-claude-spaak-au-theatre-du-parc-une-_t-19950602-Z09LFN.html.

  3. Mia Vandekerckhove, interview, Brussels, November 2014.

  4. Trepper, Le Grand Jeu, 475.

  5. Ibid., 548.

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