important stories to tell of nine women who escaped the Holocaust together

THE NINE by Gwen Strauss is a solid book. it offers important stories to tell of nine women who escaped the Holocaust together. this story includes: the women's plight and all of the pain that they suffered in the process of escaping the Nazis; how the women sought out new lives yet continued to struggle in the postwar world; and the author's reflections on how she started the project, how she felt about relaying these women's stories, and how she thinks about Holocaust memory more broadly. unfortunately, the audiobook narrator was abysmal. But I feel like Gwen Strauss wrote a thoughtful, well-researched story, and readers should be thankful to her that this book exists. one of the nine woman is the author’s direct relative. author Gwen Strauss is a poet not a historian, but I am a historian, and I think that she did an excellent job crafting history!