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The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive by Lucy Adlington (Hardcover, 2021)
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It was work that they hoped would spare them from the gas chambers. The Dressmakers of Auschwitz. Jewish Chronicle . Lucy Adlington is a British dress historian with more than twenty years' experience researching social history.
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The powerful chronicle of the women who used their sewing skills to survive the Holocaust, stitching beautiful clothes at an extraordinary fashion workshop created within one of the most notorious WWII death camps. At the height of the Holocaust twenty-five young inmates of the infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp - mainly Jewish women and girls - were selected to design, cut, and sew beautiful fashions for elite Nazi women in a dedicated salon. It was work that they hoped would spare them from the gas chambers. This fashion workshop - called the Upper Tailoring Studio - was established by Hedwig Hoss, the camp commandant's wife, and patronized by the wives of SS guards and officers. Here, the dressmakers produced high-quality garments for SS social functions in Auschwitz, and for ladies from Nazi Berlin's upper crust. Drawing on diverse sources - including interviews with the last surviving seamstress - The Dressmakers of Auschwitz follows the fates of these brave women. Their bonds of family and friendship not only helped them endure persecution, but also to play their part in camp resistance. Weaving the dressmakers' remarkable experiences within the context of Nazi policies for plunder and exploitation, historian Lucy Adlington exposes the greed, cruelty, and hypocrisy of the Third Reich and offers a fresh look at a little-known chapter of World War II and the Holocaust.Product Identifiers
PublisherHodder & Stoughton
ISBN-139781529311969
eBay Product ID (ePID)27049033807
Product Key Features
Number of Pages400 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameThe Dressmakers of Auschwitz: the True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive
Publication Year2021
SubjectHistory
TypeTextbook
AuthorLucy Adlington
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height236 mm
Item Weight620 g
Item Width158 mm
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorLucy Adlington
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- 10 Feb, 2022
Different from anything I have ever read
A very good book so far, I still have a way to go but what I have read is both heart wrenching and heart warming. A story if survival in the most horrific of circumstances.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
