The Nine: The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of Nazi Germany Strauss Gwen
[A] narrative of unfathomable courage --Wall Street JournalThe Nine follows the true story of the author's great aunt Hlne Podliasky, who led a band of nine female resistance fighters as they escaped…
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[A] narrative of unfathomable courage --Wall Street JournalThe Nine follows the true story of the author's great aunt Hlne 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 Ravensbrck. By the time they were