999 - The Forgotten Girls

Synopsis

In the spring of 1942, the Nazis ordered the Slovak government to send a slave labor force and received 999 teenage, Jewish girls. Their railway ticket was a one-way trip to Auschwitz. First-time Director/Producer and author of the international bestselling book, 999, Heather Dune Macadam spent eleven years interviewing survivors of the first transport all over the world. Digging through family and government archives, 999 unearths ground-breaking research that reveals this untold story from an entirely female perspective. Those who survived endured more than three years in the death camps and beg us to ask the question: Why were girls targeted first?