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Caroline Moorehead: The Resistance Women Who Survived Auschwitz

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What was life like for the women who were sent to the death camps of Nazi Germany? We are honoured to welcome the biographer Caroline Moorhead to launch her astonishing new book, A Train in Winter. Through interviews with women of the resistance who survived their ordeal in Auschwitz, Moorehead has created a moving, haunting account of ordinary people during the Second World War. Chaired by Jamie Jauncey. Part of Edinburgh International Book Festival

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Edinburgh Book Festival 2012 day planner

3 Aug 2012

Julia Donaldson, AC Grayling, AL Kennedy, Alexander McCall Smith and more

Saturday 11 Julia Donaldson The Glasgow-based Children’s Laureate kicks off the Book Festival with a performance-based show in which she brings life to stories such as The Gruffalo and Superworm. Hubbie Malcolm will be on hand to help things along.

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