Dressmakers of Auschwitz: True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive By Lucy Adlington
Dressmakers of Auschwitz: True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive By Lucy Adlington
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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 in a dedicated salon for elite Nazi women. 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 fate of these brave women. Their bonds of family and friendship not only helped them endure persecution but also play a part un 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.
Soft cover.
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 fate of these brave women. Their bonds of family and friendship not only helped them endure persecution but also play a part un 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.
Soft cover.