Questions About 999: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz

by Heather Dune Macadam (Goodreads Author)

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How could the parents of the daughters of the first transport have no idea what was happening? This question has not been answered.

Maggie Many, many Eastern European Jews were killed early on by Einsatzgruppen, killed in their towns or marched into ravines and shot. It wasn't till Decemb…moreMany, many Eastern European Jews were killed early on by Einsatzgruppen, killed in their towns or marched into ravines and shot. It wasn't till December 1941 that Chelmno, the first extermination camp in Poland, was established. It seems perfectly conceivable to me that in March of 1942, in Slovakia, there might not have been widespread knowledge of the new extermination camps. With rumors of mass killings in the countryside, and with the intense Nazi propaganda campaign to minimize and deny actual events, and with the willing cooperation of the Slovak government, it might have even seemed safer to let your daughters go to work in the Reich or the General Government areas. It wasn't, but those were desperate confusing times.(less)

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