999: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official

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

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â€œA fresh, remarkable story of Auschwitz on the 75th anniversary of its liberation. Â An uplifting story of the herculean strength of young girls in a staggeringly harrowing situation.â€
â€”Kirkus
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â€œIntimate, harrowingâ€¦ This careful, sympathetic history illuminates an incomprehensible human tragedy.â€
â€”Publishers Weekly

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 parentsâ€™ homes wearing their best clothes and confidently wavingÂ good-bye.Â Believing they were going to work in a factory for a few months, they wereÂ eager to report for government service. Instead, the young womenâ€”many of them teenagersâ€”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.
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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 Jewishâ€”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 ofÂ those first deporteesÂ to create an important addition to Holocaust literature and womenâ€™s history.
Country USA
Brand Random House Books for Young Readers
Manufacturer Citadel
Binding Hardcover
Color White
ReleaseDate 2019-12-31
UnitCount 1
Format Illustrated
EANs 9780806539362

Country	USA
Brand	Random House Books for Young Readers
Manufacturer	Citadel
Binding	Hardcover
Color	White
ReleaseDate	2019-12-31
UnitCount	1
Format	Illustrated
EANs	9780806539362

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

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