winter train

★ Biographer Caroline Moorhead's WWII series

★ Describe women's resistance movement, concentration camp survival and post-war life under the French Vichy regime

★ Witness the power of friendship and wisdom

This book is the first volume of "Moorhead World War II Works Collection", and was awarded the Best Book of "Toronto Star" and "Excellent Reader" of "New York Times".

During World War II, in exchange for the Axis powers not carve up France, the Vichy regime assisted in the arrest of Jews and other "undesirable elements". A few brave women, united by hatred and resistance to the Nazi occupiers, distributed anti-Nazi leaflets, printed revolutionary publications, hid resisters, and smuggled Jews to safety. They are teachers, students, pharmacists, singers at the Paris Opera, writers and housewives, they are mothers, wives, sisters, daughters. They were also prisoners on the 31,000 train bound for the Nazi concentration camps.

The train took them to Auschwitz and Birkenau, where they endured unimaginable torture: the brutality of SS officers, typhus, gangrene and other diseases caused by poor living conditions, gas chambers, The invisible shadow of the incinerator. There, they take care of each other, comfort each other, and gain comfort and strength from deep feelings and friendship. There were 230 people when they went, but only 49 survived and returned to France. Their experiences tell us how far human nature can degenerate toward evil, and how sublime it can be sublimated toward good. This book is the first volume of "Moorhead World War II Works Collection", and was awarded the Best Book of "Toronto Star" and "Excellent Reader" of "New York Times".

During World War II, in exchange for the Axis powers not carve up France, the Vichy regime assisted in the arrest of Jews and other "undesirable elements". A few brave women, united by hatred and resistance to the Nazi occupiers, distributed anti-Nazi leaflets, printed revolutionary publications, hid resisters, and smuggled Jews to safety. They are teachers, students, pharmacists, singers at the Paris Opera, writers and housewives, they are mothers, wives, sisters, daughters. They were also prisoners on the 31,000 train bound for the Nazi concentration camps.

The train took them to Auschwitz and Birkenau, where they endured unimaginable torture: the brutality of SS officers, typhus, gangrene and other diseases caused by poor living conditions, gas chambers, The invisible shadow of the incinerator. There, they take care of each other, comfort each other, and gain comfort and strength from deep feelings and friendship. There were 230 people when they went, but only 49 survived and returned to France. Their experiences tell us how far human nature can degenerate toward evil, and how sublime it can be sublimated toward good.