This sounds like a really powerful box...can't really put it any better than as described ...."powerful, heart-stopping tribute to the power of humanity in the darkest of times" I can understand why the author who is the great-niece of one of the nine wants to put down the story into a book for the world to read just what happened..it is good to know they have lived to tell, but what a tale to have gone through all that happened to these women.