The Dressmakers of Auschwitz
The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive
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Lucy Adlington
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Lucy Adlington
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The 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, 25 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 patronised 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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©2021 Lucy Adlington (P)2021 Hodder & Stoughton LimitedWhat listeners say about The Dressmakers of Auschwitz
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- S&J
- 06-05-2022
Warm and chilling
With sensitivity and skill, Adlington paints the stories of horror and resilience in appreciable detail. The women of the Upper Tailoring Salon felt to me like compatriots in the tragic and triumph of their experiences. Especially nuanced was the subject of Hedwig Höss and the bizarre brutality at the crossroads of her ideology and personal life. To think of Nazi women profiting at such awful human cost and never owning the carnage of their choices defies explanation, but the author handles this with a careful juxtaposition of words. I will carry this story and the images it has raised in my heart to provoke me towards more compassion and wisdom.
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- Dona
- 09-03-2024
A Different Insight into the Horrors and Survivors of the Holocaust
After listening to an interview of the author, I knew I had to read her book as I knew nothing about how these women survived the Holocaust through sewing fashionable clothing for the German elite. Besides listening to the book being read by the author I also was able to see photos of the women via the Kindle edition of the book. I highly recommend the book,especially with the rise of antisemitism around the world.
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- Amazon Customer
- 30-01-2022
Fascinating and confronting
What a gem of a book! It is amazing that 80 years after the war that fresh information is being collated and published. Beautifully written and beautifully read.
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- Anonymous User
- 05-02-2024
lots of detail of real people, well written and told.
history without embellishment written with compassion and insight into the real people whose lives are told about.
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- Anonymous User
- 11-02-2022
Amazing, moving, sensitive story
This is one of the most moving and beautiful stories I have listened to in a long time. We’ll written and narrated. Couldn’t put this book down.
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- Josh
- 30-09-2023
In awe of this incredible and heart wrenching story!
A must read incredible story of friendship and sewing for survival. I was shocked and in awe of this story. Hooked from the beginning, I could not stop listening.
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- Queen Barkindji
- 11-04-2022
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Heartbreakingly captivating. I struggle to find the words to describe this story of such otherworldly experiences. Fascinating to hear it from such a different viewpoint to what I’ve previously heard, my heart is overflowing with emotion.
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- Laura kus
- 22-09-2022
amazing
a sad true story of history, and how sewing saved the lives of the victims of the holocaust
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- Lily
- 11-02-2023
A book everyone needs to read. The experiences of everyone who went to the concentration camps needs to be heard
At times I was a bit confused with who the people were and the time that part of the story was taking place in but that didn’t detract from the subject matter of the horrific time all the prisoners had to endure in the concentration camps. I listened to the audio version so wasn’t flicking the pages back to check on thing.
Humanity still has a lot to learn as there are even more holocaust deniers now than ever there were.
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- Reviewer Specialist
- 29-09-2021
Not fact full
I did not enjoy this I found it all over the place and not well written at all
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