Citadel Press 999: the extraordinary young women of the first official jewish transport to auschwitz/heather dune macadam

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Description 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.

About the Author Heather Dune Macadam's first book, co-authored with Rena Kornreich Gelissen, was Rena's Promise: A Story of Sisters in Auschwitz.

Rena's Promise was nominated for the National Book Award, the Christopher Award, the American Jewish Award, and the National Library Association Award and has been published throughout the world.

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 and is the Producer/Director of the documentary film, 999: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz.

Her efforts have been recognized by Yad Vashem in the UK and Israel, the USC Shoah Foundation, the National M.