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

Description

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, many of them teenagers, boarded a train in Poprad, Slovakia. Believing they were going to work in a factory for a few months, they were eager to report for government service and left their parents’ homes wearing their best clothes and confidently waving good-bye. Instead, the young women were sent to Auschwitz. Only a few would survive. Now acclaimed author Heather Dune Macadam reveals their 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.
 
“Intimate and harrowing. . . . This careful, sympathetic history illuminates an incomprehensible human tragedy.”
—Publishers Weekly
 
“Against the backdrop of World War II, this respectful narrative presents a compassionate and meticulous remembrance of the young women profiled throughout. Recommended for all collections.”
—Library Journal
 
“Staggering . . . profound. [Macadam’s] book also offers insight into the passage of these women into adulthood, and their children, as ‘secondhand survivors.’”
—Gail Sheehy, New York Times bestselling author of Passages and Daring: My Passages
 
“Heather Dune Macadam’s 999 reinstates the girls to their rightful place in history.”
—Foreword Reviews
 
“An important addition to the annals of the Holocaust, as well as women’s history. Not everyone could handle such material, but Heather Dune Macadam is deeply qualified, insightful, and perceptive.”
—Susan Lacy, creator of the American Masters series and filmmaker
 
“The story of these teenage girls is truly extraordinary. Congratulations to Heather Dune Macadam for enabling the rest of us to sit down and just marvel at how on earth they did it.”
—Anne Sebba, New York Times bestselling author of Les Parisiennes and That Woman
 
“An important contribution to the literature on women's experiences.”
—Dr. Rochelle G. Saidel, founder and executive director, Remember the Women Institute
 

Get the book

Amazon.com

Search the book

eBay.com

Search the book

Other editions

• 

  999: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish...

  • 2021-01-26
  • 464 pages
  • Paperback
  • Kensington Publishing Corporation

Similar books

• 

  1939: Countdown to War

  By Richard Overy, R. J. Overy

  In this dramatic account of the last days of peace in 1939, Richard Overy re-creates hour by hour the unfolding story in the capitals of Europe as politicians and the public braced themselves for a war that they feared might spell the end ...

• 

  The Basis and Making of British Grand Strategy, 1940-1943: Was There a Plan?

  By Brian Padair Farrell

  CAB70 / 5 , DC ( S ) ( 42 ) 89 , 5/10 , DC ( S ) ( 42 ) 6 , MAP Report , 26/1 , DC ( S ) ( 42 ) 98 , MAP Report , 16/11/42 ; CAB65 / 28 , War Cabinet minutes ... LHCMA , Brooke Papers , 3 / A / V , 18/5/42 retrospective ; Butler , vol.

• 

  Concise Historical Atlas of World War Two: The Geography of Conflict

  By Ronald Story

  The collection will cover both conventional and non-conventional areas.

• 

  Hell's Highway: U.S. 101st Airborne -1944

  By Tim Saunders

  Captain Phillips was leading us. The platoons were well deployed. We pushed our way through whatever Germans were in front of us to a drawbridge at the canal and anchored ourselves in position.' Radio operator Private Haller, ...

• 

  World War II on the Air: Edward R. Murrow and the Broadcasts that Riveted a Nation

  By Alex Lubertozzi, Mark Bernstein

  The journalists and the reports that brought World War II to life share accounts of the London Blitz, Eric Sevareid's parachuting over Burma from a crippled aircraft, Howard K. Smith's narrow escape from Nazi Germany on December 6, 1941, ...

• 

  Film Propaganda in Britain and Nazi Germany: World War II Cinema

  By Jo Fox

  Also reproduced in K. Jackson ( ed . ) , The Humphrey Jennings Film Reader ( Carcanet , Manchester , 1993 ) , p . 7 . 137. Ibid . , 20 October 1940. K. Jackson ( ed . ) , The Humphrey Jennings Film Reader , p . 8 . 138.

• 

  Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945

  By David M. Kennedy

  Who touches these books touches a profession.

• 

  The Curtain: Witness and Memory in Wartime Holland

  By Henry G. Schogt

  Seven stories reveal how two families - one Jewish, one non-Jewish - fared in the Netherlands during the German occupation of World War II. Each story highlights a specific aspect of life; and emphasizes the difference between the options ...

• 

  1941: The America That Went to War

  By William M. Christie

  Burman, Red, 172 Burma-Shave, 191 Burns, Bob, 202,301 Burns, George, 203 Bush, Douglas, 70 Butts, Wally, 167 Byrd, Harry F., 12ff., 17 Caldwell, Harmon, 67 Calloway, Cab, 44 Campanella, Roy, 165 Cantor, Eddie, 52 Carle, Frankie, ...

• 

  绞杀世界：二战各国未实施的绝密军事计划

  By 迈克尔·克里根

  “毫无疑问的是,”海军中将路易斯·蒙巴顿勋爵注意到,“敌人已经完全认识到了海峡群岛的价值,认识到一旦我们的军队重新占领它们所带来的潜在威胁。”由蒙巴顿起草的“星座行动”是针对海峡群岛各岛屿而进行的一系列独立行动的统称。“天鹰行动”“六角琴行动” ...