INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The New York Times bestselling author of The Dressmakers
of Auschwitz tells the stories of four Jewish girls during the Holocaust strangers whose
lives were unknowingly linked by everyday garments revealing how the ordinary can connect us
in extraordinary ways. Jock Heidenstein Anita Lasker Chana Zumerkorn and Regina Feldman all
faced the Holocaust in different ways. While they did not know each other—in fact had never
met—each had a red sweater that would play a major part in their lives. In this absorbing and
deeply moving account award-winning clothes historian Lucy Adlington documents their stories
knitting together the experiences that fragmented their families and their lives. Adlington
immortalizes these young women whose resilience skills strength and kindness accompanied
them through the darkest events in human history. A powerful reminder of the suffering they
endured and a celebration of courage love and tenacity this moving and original work
illuminates moments long lost to history now pieced back together by a simple garment. Four
Red Sweaters is illustrated with more than two dozen black-and-white images throughout.
