Ebook: A train in winter: an extraordinary story of women, friendship, and resistance in occupied France
Author: Moorehead Caroline
- Tags: Women concentration camp inmates--Poland--Oświęcim, Women prisoners of war--France, World War 1939-1945--Underground movements--France, World War 1939-1945--Women--France, Women, Women concentration camp inmates, Underground movements War, Women prisoners of war, History, Biographies, Auschwitz (Concentration camp), World War 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- France, Women concentration camp inmates -- Poland -- Oświęcim -- Biography, World War 1939-1945 -- Women -- France -- Biography, Women priso
- Year: 2012
- Publisher: HarperCollins US
- City: New York;France;Poland;Oświęcim
- Edition: 1st Harper Perennial ed
- Language: English
- epub
"They were teachers, students, chemists, writers, and housewives; a singer at the Paris Opera; a midwife; a dental surgeon. They distributed anti-Nazi leaflets, printed subversive newspapers, hid resisters, secreted Jews to safety, transported weapons, and conveyed clandestine messages. The youngest was a schoolgirl of sixteen, who scrawled 'V' (for victory) on the walls of her lycée; the eldest, a farmer's wife in her sixties who harbored escaped Allied airmen. Strangers to one another, hailing from villages and cities across France--230 brave women united in defiance of their Nazi occupiers--they were eventually hunted down by the Gestapo. Separated from home and loved ones, imprisoned in a fort outside Paris, they found solace and strength in their deep affection and camaraderie. In January 1943, they were sent to their final destination: Auschwitz. Only forty-nine would return to France. Drawing on interviews with these women and their families, and on documents in German, French, and Polish archives, A Train in Winter is a remarkable account of the extraordinary courage of ordinary people--a story of bravery, survival, and the enduring power of female friendship."--Page 4 of cover.
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