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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Macadam, Heather Dune.     Subjects     Auschwitz (Concentration camp) -- History.     Jewish women in the Holocaust.     Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.     Holocaust survivors -- Slovakia.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Macadam, Heather Dune.       by title:      999 : the extraordin...       by call number:      940.53185 M113n     Search the Web     Macadam, Heather Dune.     Auschwitz (Concentration camp) -- History.     Jewish women in the Holocaust.     Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.     Holocaust survivors -- Slovakia.       MARC Display

999 : the extraordinary young women of the first official transport to Auschwitz / Heather Dune Macadam ; foreword by Caroline Moorehead. by Macadam, Heather Dune. Citadel Press, Kensington Publishing Corp., 2020. Call #: 940.53185 M113n Subjects Auschwitz (Concentration camp) -- History.   Jewish women in the Holocaust.   Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.   Holocaust survivors -- Slovakia. ISBN:  9780806539362 (hc.) Alternate title:  999 : the extraordinary young women of the first official Jewish transport to Auschwitz. Nine hundred ninety-nine : the extraordinary young women of the first official transport to Auschwitz Description:  xxv, 438 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-417) and index. 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."--From publisher. Other authors:  Moorehead, Caroline. Holds:  1   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status Due Date   Woodlawn Public Library Adult Nonfiction 940.53185 M113n Adult books Checked out Jul 30, 2024 Add Copy to MyList Musquodoboit Harbour Public Library Adult Nonfiction 940.53185 M113n Adult books Checked in   Add Copy to MyList

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