The Nine Hundred The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz - Heather Dune Macadam, Caroline Moorehead parchment to America and modern Israel

to America and modern Israel

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The Nine Hundred The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz - Heather Dune Macadam, Caroline Moorehead parchment to America and modern IsraelOn 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