Suzanne Kohn (née Netre, 18 September 1895 – 8 March 1945) was a French Jew who was murdered in

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. Kohn was born into one of France's most prominent Jewish families; her father owned a tobacco company, her grandparents were personal friends of

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and she grew up in an environment of wealth and elegance. Kohn's husband, Armand Kohn, was Secretary-General of the Rothschild Foundation in Paris from 1940. The couple had four children: Antoinette, Rose-Marie, Philippe and

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. In 1942 Kohn and her children converted to Catholicism to avoid the persecution of Jews by the Nazi regime, however in July 1944 the family was arrested and imprisoned in the

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in Paris. Kohn and her daughter Antoinette were taken to the

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, where they both were murdered.

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