- Summary
- 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.
- Variant Title
- 999 : The extraordinary young women of the first official Jewish transport to Auschwitz
Nine nine nine
Nine-hundred ninety nine
- Format
- Online resource
- Author/Creator
- Macadam, Heather Dune, author.
- Published
- New York, NY : Citadel Press, Kensington Publishing Corp., [2020]
©2020
- Locale
- Poland
- Contents
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Foreword / by Caroline Moorehead
Author's note
Principal characters on first transport
Part one
Part two
Part three
Homecomings
Afterwards
One final world.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Moorehead, Caroline, writer of foreword.
- Notes
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Foreword by Caroline Moorehead.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-417) and index.
Foreword / by Caroline Moorehead -- Author's note -- Principal characters on first transport -- Part one -- Part two -- Part three -- Homecomings -- Afterwards -- One final world.
