The Nine : how a band of daring resistance women escaped from Nazi Germany / Gwen Strauss.

• The Nine Xi -- Map Of Escape Route -- 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.

• "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 Ravensbruck. 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"--Publisher's description. 

Ämnesord

Andra världskriget 1939-1945  (sao)

Krigsfångar  (sao)

Politiska fångar  (sao)

Kvinnliga politiska fångar  (sao)

Kvinnliga krigsfångar  (sao)

Kvinnliga koncentrationslägerfångar  (sao)

Koncentrationsläger  (sao)

Motståndsrörelser  (sao)

World War, 1939-1945  -- Prisoners and prisons, German. (LCSH)

World War, 1939-1945  -- Underground movements -- France. (LCSH)

Women Nazi concentration camp inmates  -- Germany -- History -- 20th century. (LCSH)

Prisoner-of-war escapes.  (fast)

Underground movements, War.  (fast)

Women concentration camp inmates.  (fast)

Women political prisoners.  (fast)

World War, 1939-1945  (LCSH)

Political prisoners  (LCSH)

Prisoners of war  (LCSH)

Women political prisoners  (LCSH)

Concentration camps  (LCSH)

Women concentration camp inmates  (LCSH)

Frankrike  (sao)

Tyskland  (sao)

France.  (fast)

Germany.  (fast)

1900-1999  (fast)

Genre

Biografier  (saogf)

History.  (fast)

Biographies.  (lcgft)

Personnamn

Podliasky, Hélène, 1920-2012.

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

History

Klassifikation

D805.A2STR (LCC)

940.53174309252 (DDC)

K.54 (kssb/8 (machine generated))