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May 4, 2021 · The Nine follows the true story of the author’s great aunt Hélène 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.
- Gwen Strauss
May 4, 2021 · The Nine follows the true story of the author’s great aunt Hélène 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.
May 4, 2021 · The Nine by Gwen Strauss is a vivid portrayal of the true events of nine female resistance workers- captured by the Nazis and imprisoned in a concentration camp. To counterbalance the brutal inhumanity of the camp, these women performed small but deeply meaningful acts of kindness.
- Gwen Strauss
May 4, 2021 · More died than escaped, but at one point, nine women jumped into a roadside ditch to hide until the soldiers passed. Strauss alternates tales of their early lives, Resistance activities, and arrest with their horrific experiences in concentration camps and factories, escape, and walk across Germany to American lines.
May 4, 2021 · Banding together in the hellscape of Ravensbruck, the nine resistance fighters turned prisoners make a desperate bid for escape in the chaos of the war's end, embarking across battle-ravaged Germany toward home.
May 5, 2021 · Gwen Strauss writes movingly in her book “The Nine” about the courage and luck that enabled nine young women to escape German imprisonment during World War II and...
Heather Morris, author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz. The thrilling story of how nine young women, captured by the Nazis for being part of the Resistance, launched a breathtakingly bold escape and found their way home.
- Gwen Strauss
