EAN: 9780063030930

THE DRESSMAKERS OF AUSCHWITZ - LUCY ADLINGTON K...

A 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 Höss  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.

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