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The nine : the true story of a band of women who survived the worst of Nazi Germany

The nine : the true story of a band of women who survived the worst of Nazi Germany

Book 2022

"The Nine follows the true story of the author's great aunt Helene Podliasky, who led a band of nine female resistance fighters as they escaped a German forced labor camp and made a ten-day journey across the front lines of WWII from Germany back to Paris. The nine women were all under thirty when they joined the resistance. They smuggled arms through Europe, harbored parachuting agents, coordinated communications between regional sectors, trekke...