A train in winter : an extraordinary story of women, friendship, and resistance in occupied France /

A train in winter : an extraordinary story of women, friendship, and resistance in occupied France /

In January 1943, the Gestapo hunted down 230 women of the French Resistance and sent them to Auschwitz. This is their story, told in full for the first time, a searing and unforgettable chronicle of terror, courage, defiance, survival and the power of friendship to transcend evil that is an essentia...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Moorehead, Caroline
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : HarperCollins Publishers, 2011.
Edition:1st U.S. ed.
Subjects:
Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
World War, 1939-1945 > Women > France > Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 > Underground movements > France.
Women concentration camp inmates > Poland > Oświęcim > Biography.
Women prisoners of war > France > Biography.
Female friendship > France.
France > History > German occupation, 1940-1945.
Table of Contents:
  • Part one. An enormous toy full of subtleties
  • The flame of French resistance
  • Daughters of the Enlightenment
  • The hunt for resisters
  • Waiting for the wolf
  • Indulgent towards women
  • Recognising the unthinkable
  • "We have other plans for them"
  • Frontstalag 122 ; Part two. Le Convoi des 31000
  • The meaning of friendship
  • Keeping alive, remaining me
  • The disposables
  • Pausing before the battle
  • Slipping into the shadows
  • The women.