Lucy Adlington

The Dressmakers of Auschwitz (eBook, ePUB)

The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The moving, New York Times bestselling story of the women who sewed for their survival during the Holocaust.

'fascinating and original' - Alexandra Shulman

'Compelling . . . Adlington tells the stories of the women with clarity and steely precision' - Jewish Chronicle

'An utterly absorbing, important and unique historical read' - Judy Batalion

'Powerful . . . a fascinating account' - Woman

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 they hoped would spare them from the gas chambers.

Drawing on diverse sources - including interviews with the last surviving seamstress - The Dressmakers of Auschwitz follows the fates, friendships and resistance of these brave women. Historian Lucy Adlington shines light on their extraordinary stories, weaving a remarkable thread of courage and hope through one of the darkest periods of human history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hodder & Stoughton
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781529311990
• Artikelnr.: 61947859

Autorenporträt

Lucy Adlington is a British dress historian with more than twenty years' experience researching social history. Adlington runs History Wardrobe, a company which presents costume-in-context talks across the UK. Her non-fiction publications include: Women's Lives and Clothes in WWII: Ready for Action and Stitches in Time - the Story of the Clothes we Wear.
Lucy Adlington lives on a farm in Yorkshire.

Rezensionen

"Lucy Adlington tells of the horrors of the Nazi occupation and the concentration camps from a fascinating and original angle. She introduces us to a little known aspect of the period, highlighting the role of clothes in the grimmest of societies imaginable and giving an insight into the women who stayed alive by stitching." - Alexandra Shulman, Former Editor in Chief of British Vogue

In The Dressmakers of Auschwitz, Lucy Adlington has unveiled not one but several long-hidden histories: the tale of a group of compassionate and audacious Jewish women who sewed for their lives; the story of clothes in the Holocaust; and the history of the fashion industry in World War II. Adlington has expertly interwoven these fascinating strands into an utterly absorbing, important and unique historical read." - Judy Batalion New York Times bestselling author of The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos

"A fresh, moving Auschwitz survival story involving a remarkable group of women." - Kirkus Reviews