Interview: Caroline Moorehead on French women resisters
In the latest episode of the History Today Podcast, Kathryn Hadley talks to Caroline Moorehead.
In January 1943, 230 French women resisters were deported to Auschwitz from Gestapo detention camps in France. It was the only time in the four years of the German occupation that female resisters were sent to Auschwitz. Only 49 survived.
Caroline Moorehead tells their story, for the first time, in her latest book A Train in Winter, published this month by Chatto & Windus. Why has their story been forgotten? Why were they sent to Auschwitz and why were they deported at that particular time? How do the few survivors who are still alive remember the horror of their experiences?
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