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portada The Nine Hundred: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz
Type
Physical Book
Year
2021
Language
English
Pages
464
Format
Paperback
ISBN13
9781529329353

The Nine Hundred: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz

Heather Dune Macadam; Caroline Moorehead (Author) · Hodder Paperback · Paperback

The Nine Hundred: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz - Heather Dune Macadam; Caroline Moorehead

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Synopsis "The Nine Hundred: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz"

'Books such as this are essential: they remind modern readers of events that should never be forgotten' - Caroline MooreheadOn 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 £160) 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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