Catalog Search Results
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"The Nine follows the true story of the author's great aunt Hélène Podliasky, who led a band of nine female resistance fighters as they escaped a German forced labor camp and made a ten-day journey across the front lines of WWII from Germany back to Paris. The nine women were all under thirty when they joined the resistance. They smuggled arms through Europe, harbored parachuting agents, coordinated communications between regional sectors, trekked...
2) A train in winter: an extraordinary story of women, friendship, and resistance in occupied France
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
374 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Description
In January 1943, the Gestapo hunted down 230 women of the French Resistance and sent them to Auschwitz. This is their story, told in full for the first time--a searing and unforgettable chronicle of terror, courage, defiance, survival, and the power of friendship to transcend evil that is an essential addition to the history of World War II.
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xxiv, 743 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Description
Traces the sobering history of World War II's largest female concentration camp, revealing the torturous experiences and deaths of thousands of women prisoners of more than twenty nationalities.
Similar Searches
These searches are similar to the search you tried. Would you like to try one of these instead?
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Request an item not in the catalog. Submit Request