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999: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz
by Heather Dune Macadam, Caroline Moorehead (Foreword by), Suzanne Toren (Read by)
Heather Dune Macadam
999: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz
by Heather Dune Macadam, Caroline Moorehead (Foreword by), Suzanne Toren (Read by)
Heather Dune Macadam
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A Pen America Literary Award Finalist
A Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee
An Amazon Best of the Year Selection
The untold story of some of WW2’s most hidden figures and the heartbreaking tragedy that unites them all. Readers of Born Survivors and A Train Near Magdeburg will devour the tragic tale of the first 999 women in Auschwitz concentration camp. This is the hauntingly resonant true story that everyone should know.
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 Reich Marks (about $200) apiece for the Nazis to take them as slave labor. 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.
Includes a foreword by Caroline Moorehead, NYT bestselling author of A Train in Winter!
“A fresh, remarkable story of Auschwitz on the 75th anniversary of its liberation. An uplifting story of the herculean strength of young girls in a staggeringly harrowing situation.”
—Kirkus
“Intimate, harrowing… This careful, sympathetic history illuminates an incomprehensible human tragedy.”
—Publishers Weekly
A Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee
An Amazon Best of the Year Selection
The untold story of some of WW2’s most hidden figures and the heartbreaking tragedy that unites them all. Readers of Born Survivors and A Train Near Magdeburg will devour the tragic tale of the first 999 women in Auschwitz concentration camp. This is the hauntingly resonant true story that everyone should know.
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 Reich Marks (about $200) apiece for the Nazis to take them as slave labor. 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.
Includes a foreword by Caroline Moorehead, NYT bestselling author of A Train in Winter!
“A fresh, remarkable story of Auschwitz on the 75th anniversary of its liberation. An uplifting story of the herculean strength of young girls in a staggeringly harrowing situation.”
—Kirkus
“Intimate, harrowing… This careful, sympathetic history illuminates an incomprehensible human tragedy.”
—Publishers Weekly
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781665202534 |
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Publisher: | Tantor |
Publication date: | 03/01/2021 |
Product dimensions: | 5.20(w) x 5.70(h) x 0.00(d) |
About the Author
Heather Dune Macadam's is the acclaimed author of 999: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz and Rena's Promise: A Story of Sisters in Auschwitz. A board member of the Cities of Peace: Auschwitz and the director and president of the Rena's Promise Foundation, her work in the battle against Holocaust denial have been recognized by Yad Vashem in the UK and Israel, the USC Shoah Foundation, the National Museum of Jewish History in Bratislava, Slovakia, and the Panstowe Museum of Auschwitz in Oswiecim, Poland. Ms. Macadam has a master's degree in creative writing and received a Presidential Grant for Research from Savannah College of Art and Design, and a PEN American stipend. She is the Producer and Director of the documentary film, 999: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz and her work has been featured in National Geographic, on PBS, and other major media outlets. Visit Heather Dune Macadam online at HeatherDune.com or find more information on 999 at 999TheMovie.com.
Table of Contents
Foreword Caroline Moorehead xi
Author's Note xvii
Principal Characters on First Transport xxiii
Part 1 1
Part 2 123
Part 3 309
Homecomings 345
Afterwards 355
One Final Word 375
List of Photographs and Illustrations 377
Archives 383
Source Notes 385
Bibliography 409
Acknowledgments 419
Reading Group Guide 425
Index 427
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