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1444849611

The dressmakers of Auschwitz: the true story of the women who sewed to survive.

Author: Adlington, Lucy.

Publication year: 2022

Language: English

Media class: Large print

Classification: 940.5318

Publisher: Leicester: Charnwood, 2022.

ISBN: 9781444849615 (pbk.): £23.99.

Notes:

Standard print edition originally published: London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2021.

At the height of the Holocaust, 25 young inmates of the infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp 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.