999: THE FORGOTTEN GIRLS

HUMAN RIGHTS AWARD - Hamptons Documentary Fest | BEST DOCUMENTARY - Miami Jewish Film Festival Audience Award | OFFICIAL SELECTION - New York Jewish Film Festival Women rights • History • Home movies • Education & Educational Equity • Democracy • Jewish Studies • Human rights Date of Completion: 2024 | Run Time: 85 & 56 minutes​​ | Language: English, Hebrew, Slovak  | Captions: Yes | Includes: Transcript | Director & Producer: Heather Dune Macadam | Producers: Heather Dune Macadam, Jane Schonberger, Beatriz M Calleja & Jay Heit | Co-Director: Beatriz M Calleja | Executive Producers: Susan Lacy & Diane Nabatoff Edith Grosman was seventeen when Slovak officials ordered unmarried Jewish girls to register for work service. Filled with a sense of national pride, she joined hundreds of other innocent young women who were under the false impression their patriotic duty would benefit their families. Instead, they were deported to Auschwitz as expendable slave labor. The