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

Author:   Heather Dune Macadam ,  Suzanne Toren ,  Caroline Moorehead
Publisher:   Tantor Media, Inc
Edition:   Unabridged edition
ISBN:  

9781494539788


Publication Date:   31 December 2019
Format:   Audio  Audio Format
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999: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz


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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.

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Author:   Heather Dune Macadam ,  Suzanne Toren ,  Caroline Moorehead
Publisher:   Tantor Media, Inc
Imprint:   Tantor Media, Inc
Edition:   Unabridged edition
Dimensions:   Width: 13.50cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 19.00cm
Weight:   0.074kg
ISBN:  

9781494539788


ISBN 10:   1494539780
Publication Date:   31 December 2019
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Audio
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Heather Dune Macadam is the award-winning coauthor, with Rena Kornreich Gelissen, of Rena's Promise: A Story of Sisters in Auschwitz. Heather actively fights against Holocaust denial and is the director and president of the Rena's Promise Foundation. She sits on the board of the Cities of Peace: Auschwitz. Suzanne Toren is an actor who has appeared on and off Broadway, in regional theaters, and occasionally on TV. Over a period of several decades, she has narrated close to 1000 audiobooks for most major publishers. She has received multiple Audie nominations and many industry awards, including Narrator of the Year.

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