Sadly, of the survivors, "Few, very few, found the life of happiness they had dreamt about. She has interviewed four of the survivors and talked to the families of those who did not return, their lives and deaths summarised in a moving appendix. Caroline Moorehead is the New York Times bestselling author of Village of Secrets and A Train in Winter, as well as Human Cargo: A Journey Among the. Moorehead's theme is "friendship between women", and in her view it was the survivors' devotion to each other and a sense of "mutual dependency" – sisterhood – that made "the difference between living and dying". They were mainly professional women, communists and intellectuals, including the writer Charlotte Delbo, author of Auschwitz and After. In this impeccably researched and compelling history, Caroline Moorehead examines their lives, how they joined the Resistance, how they came to be discovered and arrested and how they suffered starvation, slave labour, disease and, in most cases, death. I n January 1943, 230 Frenchwomen were deported from occupied France to Auschwitz-Birkenau, the only women from the French Resistance to suffer this fate.
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