A moving story of friendship, sisterhood and survival. The story of the first 999 Jewish women sent to the extermination camp. "It all started with the girls," says Giora Amir, 91. On March 25, 1942, hundreds of young, single Jewish women left their homes to board a train. T...
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999 mujeres de Auschwitz, Las (edición limitada)
A moving story of friendship, sisterhood and survival. The story of the first 999 Jewish women sent to the extermination camp. "It all started with the girls," says Giora Amir, 91. On March 25, 1942, hundreds of young, single Jewish women left their homes to board a train. They were impeccably dressed and coiffed, dragging suitcases full of hand-knitted clothes and homemade food. Most of these women and girls had never spent a night away from home, but they had volunteered to work for three months in wartime. Three months of work? It couldn't be that bad. None of their parents would have guessed that the government had just sold their daughters to the Nazis to work as slaves. None knew they were bound for Auschwitz. History books may have overlooked this fact, but the truth is that the first group of Jews deported to Auschwitz to work as slaves did not include resistance fighters or prisoners of war, no. There wasn't a single male prisoner in those cattle cars. It was a train of 999 single girls, sold to Nazi Germany for a dowry of 500 Reich Marks, the equivalent |
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