TY  - BOOK
AU  - Strauss,Gwen
TI  - The nine: the true story of a band of women who survived the worst of Nazi Germany 
SN  - 9781250239297
PY  - 2021///
CY  - New York
PB  - St. Martin's Press
KW  - Podliasky, Hélène,
KW  - Ravensbrück (Concentration camp)
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Prisoners and prisons, German
KW  - Women political prisoners
KW  - France
KW  - Biography
KW  - Women concentration camp inmates
KW  - Prisoner-of-war escapes
KW  - Germany
KW  - Prisoners of war
KW  - Guerrillas
KW  - Netherlands
KW  - Underground movements
KW  - Biographies
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; The Nine Xi -- Map Of Escape Route Xi I I -- Hélène -- Zaza -- Nicole -- Lon And Guigui -- Zinka -- Josée -- Jacky -- Mena -- The Longest Day -- Return To Life -- Finding The Way Home -- It's Only A Goodbye
N2  - "The Nine follows the true story of the author's great aunt Helene 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 escape routes to Spain and hid Jewish children in scattered apartments. They were arrested by French police, interrogated and tortured by the Gestapo. They were subjected to a series of French prisons and deported to Germany. The group formed along the way, meeting at different points, in prison, in transit, and at Ravensbrück. By the time they were enslaved at the labor camp in Leipzig, they were a close-knit group of friends. During the final days of the war, forced onto a death march, the nine chose their moment and made a daring escape. Drawing on incredible research, this powerful, heart-stopping narrative is a moving tribute to the power of humanity and friendship in the darkest of times"--
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