The Nine Hundred

• Author : Heather Dune Macadam
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 2020-01-28
• ISBN : 1529329329

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 Reichsmarks (about 160) apiece for the Nazis to take them

• Author : Heather Dune Macadam,Caroline Moorehead
• Publisher : Hachette UK
• Release Date : 2020-01-23
• ISBN : 9781529329339

'Books such as this are essential: they remind modern readers of events that should never be forgotten' - Caroline Moorehead 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

• Author : Rena Kornreich Gelissen,Heather Dune Macadam
• Publisher : Beacon Press
• Release Date : 2015-03-17
• ISBN : 9780807093139

An expanded edition of the powerful memoir about two sisters' determination to survive during the Holocaust featuring new and never before revealed information about the first transport of women to Auschwitz In March 1942, Rena Kornreich and 997 other young women were rounded up and forced onto the first Jewish transport of women to Auschwitz. Soon after, Rena was reunited with her sister Danka at the camp, beginning a story of love and courage that would last three years and forty-one days.

• Author : Heather Dune Macadam
• Publisher : Citadel Press
• Release Date : 2021-01-26
• ISBN : 9780806539379

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 cloths 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

• Author : Heather Dune Macadam
• Publisher : Akashic Books
• Release Date : 2002-10-01
• ISBN : 1888451394

National Book Award nominee Heather Dune Macadam presents her first novel - as mysterious and alluring as a Buddhist Koan. New Year's Eve: Long Island detectives Devon Halsey and Lochwood Brennen, secret lovers, are thrust into mayhem by the grisly murder of Devon's best friend. What has haunted Devon for years begins to take shape, and as she dissects the file, she learns that the carvings in the victims' bodies are actually Koans - unanswerable questions that must be meditated

• Author : HEATHER DUNE. MOOREHEAD MACADAM (CAROLINE.),Caroline Moorehead
• Publisher : Hodder Paperbacks
• Release Date : 2021-01-21
• ISBN : 1529329353

• Author : Dita Kraus
• Publisher : Feiwel & Friends
• Release Date : 2020-02-11
• ISBN : 9781250760906

A Delayed Life is the breathtaking memoir that tells the story of Dita Kraus, the real-life Librarian of Auschwitz. Dita Kraus grew up in Prague in an intellectual, middle-class Jewish family. She went to school, played with her friends, and never thought of herself as being different—until the advent of the Holocaust. Torn from her home, Dita was sent to Auschwitz with her family. From her time in the children’s block of Auschwitz to her liberation from the

• Author : David Koker,Michiel Horn,John Irons
• Publisher : Northwestern University Press
• Release Date : 2012-03-29
• ISBN : 9780810126367

Finalist for 2012 National Jewish Book Award in the Holocaust category During his time in the Vught concentration camp, the 21-year-old David recorded on an almost daily basis his observations, thoughts, and feelings. He mercilessly probed the abyss that opened around him and, at times, within himself. David's diary covers almost a year, both charting his daily life in Vught as it developed over time and tracing his spiritual evolution as a writer. Until early February 1944, David was able to smuggle

• Author : Tori Telfer
• Publisher : HarperCollins
• Release Date : 2021-02-23
• ISBN : 9780062956040

A thoroughly entertaining and darkly humorous roundup of history’s notorious but often forgotten female con artists and their bold, outrageous scams—by the acclaimed author of Lady Killers. From Elizabeth Holmes and Anna Delvey to Frank Abagnale and Charles Ponzi, audacious scams and charismatic scammers continue to intrigue us as a culture. As Tori Telfer reveals in Confident Women, the art of the con has a long and venerable tradition, and its female practitioners are some of the best—

• Author : Gail Sheehy
• Publisher : Harper Collins
• Release Date : 2014-09-02
• ISBN : 9780062291714

The author of the classic New York Times bestseller Passages returns with her inspiring memoir—a chronicle of her trials and triumphs as a groundbreaking “girl” journalist in the 1960s, to iconic guide for women and men seeking to have it all, to one of the premier political profilers of modern times. Candid, insightful, and powerful, Daring: My Passages is the story of the unconventional life of a writer who dared . . . to walk New York City streets with hookers and

• Author : Jean Guéhenno
• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• Release Date : 2014
• ISBN : 9780199970865

Diary of the Dark Years is a sharply observed record of day-to-day life in occupied Paris, but far more: it is "a remarkable essay on courage and cowardice" (Wall Street Journal), expressing both shame at French collaboration with the Nazis and the stubborn resistance of an intellectual under great pressure.

• Author : Nechama Tec
• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• Release Date : 1984
• ISBN : 0195035003

The author describes how her family escaped the Nazi destruction of the Polish Jewish community by pretending to be Christians and hiding out with Catholic families

• Author : Rachel Chencinski Roth,Ram Roth
• Publisher : Rachel Chencinski Roth
• Release Date : 2002
• ISBN : UOM:39015056494308

Memoirs of a Jew born in Warsaw in 1927 as Ruchama Rachel (Roma) Rotstein, to an Orthodox family. At an early stage of the German occupation her father fled to the Soviet zone of occupation and eventually reached Eretz Israel. Roth, her mother, and her three siblings were incarcerated in the Warsaw ghetto. Her siblings were deported in September 1942 and killed. Her mother then received a certificate for travel to Palestine for the family, sent by the father, but she was

• Author : Sonja Maria Hedgepeth,Rochelle G. Saidel
• Publisher : UPNE
• Release Date : 2010
• ISBN : 9781584659044

The first book in English to specifically address the sexual violation of Jewish women during the Holocaust

• Author : Heather Dune Macadam,Simon Worrall
• Publisher : Citadel Press
• Release Date : 2022-09-27
• ISBN : 9780806541464

For readers of The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah who are hungry for a true account of Nazi Occupied Paris, Star-Crossed is the narrative nonfiction saga they can really sink their teeth into. Heather Dune Macadam and Simon Worrall transport readers to the past and introduce them to our Romeo and Juliet: a vivacious and beautiful, Jewish nineteen-year-old named Annette Zelman and a handsome young Catholic poet by the name of Jean Jausion. The pair are doomed to be torn apart