Heather Dune Macadam Knihy

Píše se rok 1942 a Židé na Slovensku nesmí vycházet z domu po deváté hodině večer, nesmí se shromažďovat, nesmí chodit do školy... příkazy se vrší jeden za druhým. A přichází další: svobodné ženy ve věku šestnácti až třiceti šesti let dostávají rozkaz dostavit se na nucené práce. Jejich příbuzní mají o své nejbližší strach, ale snaží se o pozitivní přístup: dokážou ostatním, že Židé jsou pracovití a poctiví, dívky si vydělají pár korun a vrátí se zase domů. Ženy si tedy oblečou své nejlepší šaty, do kufru zabalí to nejpotřebnější a vydávají se na cestu. Nevědí však, že jejich vláda v čele s prezidentem Tisem zaplatila Německu za jejich deportaci. Ze slovenského Popradu tak vyjíždí transport s nicnetušící tisícovkou žen, které čeká postupná likvidace. Jejich osudy mapuje tato kniha.

Annette je temperamentní dívka, která studuje pařížskou Akademii krásných umění. Jean je básník, vůdčí postava dadaistické skupiny Les Réverberes. Oba milují jazz a oba se potkávají v proslulé pařížské kavárně Café de Flore, kde lze zahlédnout Picassa, Simone de Beauvoir a další osobnosti pařížského uměleckého života. Mezi Annette a Jeanem se rozhoří láska a plánují společnou budoucnost. Avšak píše se rok 1942 a Annette je Židovka…

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 survivors, and consulting with historians, witnesses, and relatives of those first deportees to create an important addition to Holocaust literature and women's history

The untold story of the 999 young, unmarried Jewish women who were tricked into boarding a train in Poprad, Slovakia on March 25, 1942 that became the first official transport to Auschwitz.

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 as slave labour. Of those 999 innocent deportees, only a few would survive.The facts of the first official Jewish transport to Auschwitz are little known, yet profoundly relevant today. These were not resistance fighters or prisoners of war. There were no men among them. Sent to almost certain death, the young women were powerless and insignificant not only because they were Jewish-but also because they were female. Now, acclaimed author Heather Dune Macadam reveals their poignant stories, drawing on extensive interviews with survivors, and consulting with historians, witnesses, and relatives of those first deportees to create an important addition to Holocaust literature and women's history.

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... číst celé

Paris, 1940. The City of Light has fallen under German Occupation. Among patriotic Parisians, the pursuit of art, culture, and jazz have become bold acts of defiance. So has forbidden romance for talented and spirited Jewish teenager Annette Zelman, a student at the Beaux-Arts, and dashing young Catholic poet Jean Jausion. Despite their devout families' vehement opposition, the young couple finds acceptance at the famed Café de Flore, whose habitues include Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, Pablo Picasso, Django Reinhardt, and other luminaries of the Latin Quarter's creative world. For a time, Annette and Jean feel they have eluded the brute might of the relentless Nazis--and more immediately, their parents' threats and demands. But as restrictions on the Jewish community escalate to arrests and deportations, the malevolent forces gathering around the young lovers set them on divergent and tragically inevitable paths. Drawn from never-before-published family letters and other treasures, as well as archival sources and exclusive interviews, Star-Crossed offers precious insight into the Holocaust and the lives that French people bravely led under the Hitler regime.