The life and literature of Irène Némirovsky, whose novel about Nazi-occupied France was published to wide acclaim more than 60 years after the author perished at Auschwitz, will be the subject of a forthcoming exhibit at the Museum of Jewish Heritage — A Living Memorial to the Holocaust in Battery Park City.

A notebook containing the manuscript of Némirovsky’s posthumous best seller “Suite Française,” and the leather valise that housed it for decades before its discovery, will be centerpieces of “Woman of Letters: Irène Némirovsky and Suite Française,” opening September 24. Plans for this show — the first devoted to the Kiev-born, Paris-based writer — will be announced today at a museum press conference.

The exhibit arrives amid a groundswell of interest in Némirovsky’s life and work. She is the subject of two recent biographies, and on the heels of the success of “Suite Française,” which has sold more than 1 million copies, Knopf has just re-released four other works of Némirovsky’s short fiction.

Family photographs, interviews with the author dating back to the 1930s, and increasingly desperate letters written by Némirovsky’s husband to Nazi officials in attempt to secure his wife’s release following her arrest will be on display at the exhibit. Also on view will be the novelist’s final letter to her two young daughters, scrawled in pencil hurriedly from an internment camp: “Courage and hope. You are in my heart, loved ones. May God help us all.”

Born into a secular Jewish family, Némirovsky converted to Catholicism a year before the Germans occupied her adopted homeland. Since the release of Némirovsky’s 1929 debut novel “David Golder” about an unscrupulous Jewish businessman and his materialistic wife, some critics have accused the author of being anti-Semitic. “While her books contain a lot of what we’d now call unfortunate stereotypes of Jews — she was a renegade — I think the majority of people, before the tragedy of her life, will put that aside,” the author of “Irène Némirovsky: Her Life and Works,” Jonathan Weiss, said.

The curator of the Museum of Jewish Heritage exhibit, Ivy Barsky, said the show would put accusations of anti-Semitism “in the context of unfortunate, insidious, but pervasive and acceptable anti-Semitism in France.”

The director of the museum, David Marwell, conceived of “Woman of Letters” after seeing the “Suite Française” manuscript at its New York book launch in 2006. The show took shape over the next two years, with museum officials working with Némirovsky’s surviving daughter, Denise Epstein, and with the IMEC literary archives in Lower Normandy, where the author’s papers are housed.

“Suite Française” details the days leading up to, and the months that followed, the German invasion of France. The invasion forced Némirovsky from Nazi-occupied Paris, and she sought shelter in the small southern village of Issey-l’Évêque, where she penned “Suite Française.” A suitcase containing the manuscript miraculously made it to the writer’s daughters, who survived the war in hiding.

It wasn’t until about a decade ago that Ms. Epstein, following the death from cancer of her younger sister, Elisabeth, began to read what she had long assumed was their mother’s journal. When she realized that it held an unfinished masterpiece of a novel, she painstakingly transcribed each page full of tiny, handwritten words that, according to Ms. Barsky, betray “a lack of paper, a lack of ink, and a lack of time.”

Museum visitors will be able to flip through a digitized version of the notebook that housed “Suite Française,” published in France in 2004. That year, Némirovsky’s recovered novel won the prestigious Renaudot Prize for literature — marking the first time the award had been made posthumously. Copies of “Suite Française” and Némirovsky’s other novels, paired with historical and contemporary criticism of her writing, will fill a reading room adjacent to the exhibition space. “Suite Française” was to have comprised five novellas, but the author had completed only two of them at the time of her July 1942 arrest. Némirovsky, who had never received French citizenship — and whose conversion to Catholicism was not recognized by Nazi officials — was deemed a “stateless Jew” and sent to Auschwitz. Within weeks of being deported, Némirovsky was dead; she was 39.

“Her destiny is close to her literary experiment in the book,” the New York-based literary attaché of the French Embassy, Fabrice Gabriel, said. “In the novel, it seems to me, there is a premonition of what was going to happen; there is feeling that history is progress in a very tragic way.”