Columbus Jewish Film Festival - 999: The Forgotten Girls

Directed by Heather Dune Macadam, Documentary, 2021, USA, English/Hebrew/Slovak with English subtitles, 88 min.

This is the untold story of 999 unmarried, young Jewish women initially registered for government service in a purported shoe factory, only to be tragically sent to Auschwitz. Who were these young women? Why were they chosen? Survivors reveal the truth of this almost completely forgotten piece of women’s history, the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz. Told from a uniquely female perspective, this sorority of survival asks the poignant question: why were girls targeted first?

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