The Nine Hundred: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz

Heather Dune Macadam began her career as a performance artist and dancer with the Martha Graham Contemporary Dance Company. After an accident prematurely ended her performing career she began writing. Dancers are fairly quiet people but since she discovered writing, she hasn’t shut up!

The acclaimed author of 999: The Extra­or­di­nary Young Women of the First Offi­cial Jew­ish Trans­port to Auschwitz, a PEN Amer­i­ca Lit­er­ary Award Final­ist, top five in the Goodreads Choice Awards Finals, and an Ama­zon Best of the Year Selec­tion and translated into 19 languages; she is also the Producer/Director of the documentary film by the same title. Her first book, Rena’s Promise: A Sto­ry of Sis­ters in Auschwitz was also about the first transport. Macadam's work in the bat­tle against Holo­caust denial has been rec­og­nized by Yad Vashem in the UK and Israel, the USC Shoah Foun­da­tion, the Nation­al Muse­um of Jew­ish His­to­ry in Bratisla­va, Slo­va­kia, and the Panstowe Muse­um of Auschwitz in Oswiec­im, Poland.

Ms. Macadam is a member of PEN, sat on the board for Cities of Peace: Auschwitz and is the founder of the Rena’s Promise Foun­da­tion. Her writing has been fea­tured in Nation­al Geo­graph­ic, the Guardian, Sunday Times, NY Times and on NPR's All Things Considered, as well as oth­er major media outlets.

She has a rescue lamb, horse, Dalmatian and calico cat, though who rescued whom is up for debate.