Books A train in winter

This non-fiction book chronicles the extraordinary and moving true story of 230 women of the French Resistance who were rounded up and sent on a single train to Auschwitz in January 1943. It is the only convoy of female political prisoners to go directly to a death camp. 

The narrative focuses on the women's fight against the Nazi occupation, their remarkable bonds of friendship and survival amid unimaginable horrors, and their endurance through the concentration camps. Of the original group, only 49 women survived to return to France. The book is a portrait of ordinary people demonstrating stunning courage and resilience.