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

999: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz by Heather Dune Macadan is a holocaust story like no other.  It strikes at the heart of a community's future: its girls.  This book is a chronicle of Slovakian Jewish girls sent on the first transport to construction parts of Auschwitz-Birkenau.  The Slovakian Jewish community had no way of knowing the ultimate fate of their children.  The fact that they wore sent to camps early, when Germany's plans were still largely secret, adds to the tragedy and pathos of this story.  This is an excellent book and shows that not only shows the broad scope of the holocaust, but the heavy price paid of real people, giving them a name.