Nine young girls in their 20's, having been arrested as political prisoners, develop a strong bond while in German prisons. They have experienced the horrors of transports, torture, beatings and starvation. They are on a final death march near the end of the war and see an opportunity to escape and they take it. These women support each other while walking and hiding for 10 days through illness and dispair while trying to reach the American front. The narrative of the escape is told as a continuing dialog by each of the survivors. The author has retraced their story through writings by these women, meeting family members and thorough research with a follow up of each of their lives after the war. The life following their liberation was traumatic as they didn't fit in. There experience was considered "part of the past" and no one would have believed it, if they could have talked about it.
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