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The Nine Hundred - The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz (Paperback)
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The Nine Hundred - The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz (Paperback)
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'Books such as this are essential: they remind modern readers of
events that should never be forgotten' - Caroline Moorehead On
March 25, 1942, nearly a thousand young, unmarried Jewish women
boarded a train in Poprad, Slovakia. Filled with a sense of
adventure and national pride, they left their parents' homes
wearing their best clothes and confidently waving good-bye.
Believing they were going to work in a factory for a few months,
they were eager to report for government service. Instead, the
young women-many of them teenagers-were sent to Auschwitz. Their
government paid 500 Reichsmarks (about GBP160) apiece for the Nazis
to take them as slave labour. Of those 999 innocent deportees, only
a few would survive. The facts of the first official Jewish
transport to Auschwitz are little known, yet profoundly relevant
today. These were not resistance fighters or prisoners of war.
There were no men among them. Sent to almost certain death, the
young women were powerless and insignificant not only because they
were Jewish-but also because they were female. Now, acclaimed
author Heather Dune Macadam reveals their poignant stories, drawing
on extensive interviews with survivors, and consulting with
historians, witnesses, and relatives of those first deportees to
create an important addition to Holocaust literature and women's
history.
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