Heather Dune Macadam's "999: The Extraordinary Story of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz"

Jackie Graham: This is the story of the 999 women who were on the first transport trains to Auschwitz. Of course, not each and every young women's story can be told in detail, but there is enough details about a group of the women that each story is represented. It is so interesting, it is hard to put the book down.

United States on Nov 08, 2023

Kindle Customer: , fortitude and will to live is a lesson for us all. May God bless every single one of them. We MUST NEVER FORGET!

United States on Sep 13, 2023

T Jankow: The individual stories made this book. The amount of research that went into the development of this book was evident on every page. The impact it left on me was monumental.

United States on Aug 10, 2023

Goodreviewer: What a remarkable book. A truly fantastic study of social history. It is a riveting description of a terrible time.

United Kingdom on Jul 05, 2022

Suzanne Fortier: Interesting story.

Canada on Feb 09, 2022

Angela Conlon: Good book . can be upsetting to hear how these people were treated but we cannot dismiss the past and the facts .

United Kingdom on Sep 20, 2021

Kindle Customer: Very well done... Can't imagine 16 year olds going through what they did... Research extensive and well done... "Those who forget their past are condemned to repeat it." Read in Dachau, Germany. Amazing resilience of human life and the strength of human love... Proof of how depraved and evil men are without the love of God... "Vengeance is mine. I will repay." Bible Justice will be meted out in time.

Canada on Sep 08, 2020

Donal: I have read many books about the Holocaust,but this book somehow had me almost there it was so powerfully written,As I sat at home reading ,it was impossible to imagine the suffering,abuse,and evil treatment of the Girls in this book by German SS ,This book should be in every school in the world so this never happens again,Im a 68 yr old man who doesn't cry easily but this book had me sobbing,I salute every person confined in the Camps,and I apologise for there treatment by my fellow man,

United Kingdom on Apr 26, 2020

Marinna: I was deeply moved by Rena’s Promise, as there are hardly any books that are solely about what women endured in The Holocaust. But one thing I felt was lacking in the memoir, and thanks to this book now realize why Rena never elaborated or went in depth with, was more details and context on the events or things that the women went through or were subjected to in Auschwitz. It’s absolutely horrifying all the things that these incredible survivors went through, and despite all the untold trauma and abuse, they preserved despite all the ghastly and absolutely inhumane acts they had to witness and endure.

It’s written extremely well, part memoir, and part historical textbook, the author noting that certain events none of the women seemed to remember, didn’t want to remember or really talk about, due to how traumatic and/or humiliating it was for them. Being a survivor of rape, I can totally relate. Sometimes the mind just shuts out certain events to protect itself. And some events, though remembered, are too traumatic and embarrassing to the survivors to want to relive. And these women were subjected to all these horrors 24/7 for 3 years.

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United States on Apr 15, 2020

P. Blevins: Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz was written by Heather Dune Macadam. This story is about the 999 young women from Slovakia who were taken from their homes to work for Germany. Instead, they were sent to Auschwitz. Here, they spent the rest of the war working for their own lives.
This extraordinary book looks into the lives of these girls as they were snatched from their families. Their trip in the cattle cars to Auschwitz and ultimately to Birkenau is traced by the author. These girls were around the ages of 15-18 or so. They were told they were going to work in Germany. Their parents had no idea what happened to them. The author painstakingly researched to find these girls to speak to survivors. She reconstructs their lives very vividly. She leaves nothing out so the gruesome journey becomes vivid for the reader. She shows how being together helped them through this ordeal as they helped each other survive. She shows how propaganda and false news was used to manipulate people to not be concerned about the Jews nor wonder where they had been taken. When the war was over, they would be over here to help.
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United States on Mar 24, 2020