BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//sebbo.net//ical-generator//EN NAME:DC Public Library X-WR-CALNAME:DC Public Library BEGIN:VEVENT UID:a282d24e-8449-4a85-888c-0c8ce3548388 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20260914T133020Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250127T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250127T210000 SUMMARY:999: The Forgotten Girls LOCATION:Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library - Central Library\nMartin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library - Central Library X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Martin Luther King Jr. Mem orial Library - Central Library;X-APPLE-RADIUS=10;X-TITLE=Martin Luther Ki ng Jr. Memorial Library - Central Library:geo:38.8986823,-77.024871 GEO:38.8986823;-77.024871 DESCRIPTION:A powerful screening and talkback in honor of International Ho locaust Remembrance Day featuring author and creator Heather Dune Macadam. .\nhttps://dclibrary.libnet.info/event/12661718 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

About 999: The Forgotten Girls

T his documentary chronicles the untold story of 999 mostly teenage girls be trayed by their government. Told that by volunteering for &ldquo\;work&rdq uo\; they would fulfill their patriotic duty\, these innocent young women willingly bid their families farewell. Under the cloak of deceit\, they we re transported on a one-way ticket to Auschwitz. The few who survived endu red more than three years in the death camp. Meet the last living survivor s of the First Jewish Transport and learn their story. Based on the intern ational bestseller \;999: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz \;(translate d into 19 languages).

About 999: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Transport to Auschwitz \;

999:
The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Transport to Auschwit
z The untold story of some of WW2's most hidden figures and the heartb reaking tragedy that unites them all. Readers of \;Born Survivors \;and \;A Train Near Magdeburg \;will devour the tragic tale of th e first 999 women in Auschwitz concentration camp. This is the hauntingly resonant true story that everyone should know.
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On March 25\, 1942\, nearly a thousand young\, unmarried Jewish women boarded a tra in in Poprad\, Slovakia. Filled with a sense of adventure and national pri de\, they left their parents' homes wearing their best clothes and confide ntly waving \;good-bye. \;Believing they were going to work in a f actory for a few months\, they were \;eager to report for government s ervice. Instead\, the young women--many of them teenagers--were sent to Au schwitz. Their government paid 500 Reich Marks (about $200) apiece for the Nazis to take them as slave labor. Of those 999 innocent deportees\, only a few would survive.
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The facts of the first official Je wish transport to Auschwitz are little known\, yet profoundly relevant tod ay. These were not resistance fighters or prisoners of war. There were no men among them. Sent to almost certain death\, the young women were powerl ess 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 co nsulting with historians\, witnesses\, and relatives of \;those first deportees \;to create an important addition to Holocaust literature an d women's history. Check out \;999 \;with your lib rary card.

About Author and Creator Heather Dune Macadam

Heather Dune Macadam has spent over 20 years researching and intervie wing families\, witnesses\, and survivors of the first official transport to Auschwitz. Her internationally acclaimed book 999 \;(publi shed in 2020) has been translated into 19 languages and was \;a PEN Fi nalist in 2021. Macadam&rsquo\;s work discovering lost girls and young wom en of the Holocaust has been recognized by Yad Vashem in the UK\, the Nati onal Museum of Jewish History in Slovakia\, and the Memorial Museum of Aus chwitz in Poland. A former professor\, she has taught journalism\, and cre ative nonfiction for over 20 years. This is her directorial debut.

This event is made possible in part by \;the generous support of the DC Public Library Foundation as well as the community support of the E dlavitch Jewish Community Center of Washington\, D.C. \; \;\n

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