On March 25, 1942, around one thousand Jewish women were herded onto a train in Poprad, Slovakia. Most of these women were teenagers, all unmarried. They all thought they were selected for government service employment, and thus left willingly. They wore their best clothes, packed their items into suitcases, and said goodbye to their families. Unfortunately, all of that was a cruel deceit...the women were transported to Auschwitz. Not very many of them would survive their internment in that notorious concentration camp. The author of this book did an amazing level of research for this book, and the in depth interviews that were conducted with the survivors were so supplemental and valuable to this book.

I got this book with my Audible credits quite a while back, and I was finally able to get around to it. I have made a list of books to read for each month, and this happened to be a selection. I am pleased to be working my way through some of these books I have had on backlog. This book was really good, and I hate that it took me such a long time to get to it. I thought that the author did a tremendous amount of research, and presented all of the facts in an informative and readable manner. I especially appreciated the interviews and quotations from survivors. It is so important to have the words and experiences of people who lived through historical events, so that people who did not experience it can get an accurate image of what things were like. I really enjoyed this book, despite the tragic and cruel subject matter. If you are interested in the Holocaust or World War II in general, I would strongly suggest getting this book.