The documentary reveals the untold story of 999 teenage Jewish girls initially registered for Slovak government service in a purported shoe factory, only to be tragically sent to Auschwitz.
Who were these young women? Why were young women chosen? How did a handful survive over three years in the death camps? Heather Dune Macadam, director and author of the international best-sellers, 999-The Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz and Rena’s Promise: Two Sisters in Auschwitz, spent 11 years interviewing survivors, who were in their 90s, all over the world. Digging through family and government archives, she unearthed ground-breaking research, revealing this never-before-told story. Told from a uniquely female perspective, this sorority of survival asks the poignant question: why were girls targeted first?
999: The Forgotten Girls, 2023, USA. Directed by: Heather Dune Macadam. Running time: 88 min.
Free and open to the public. Suggested donation $15. Seats are limited, on first-come first-served basis. RSVP through Eventbrite.
About
HEATHER DUNE MACADAM is the award-winning author of the international best-seller, 999: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Transport to Auschwitz, and is the foremost US scholar on the first Jewish Transport to Auschwitz. Her critically acclaimed book has been translated into nineteen languages and was a Pen Award Finalist for Biography. Her work discovering lost girls and young women of the Holocaust has been recognized by Yad Vashem in the UK, the USC Shoah Foundation, and the Memorial Museum of Auschwitz in Oswiecim, Poland. Her writing has been featured in National Geographic, the New York Times, the Guardian, NPR, and other major media outlets.
The event is organized by the Society for the History of Czechoslovak Jews with support of BBLA.