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The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive

by Lucy Adlington

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Sewing, survival, and the Holocaust

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Sewing, survival, and the Holocaust

Lucy Adlington’s historical account centers on the Upper Tailoring Studio at Auschwitz-Birkenau, where young women prisoners were made to create clothing for elite Nazi women. The workshop’s history brings together forced labor, fashion, and the prisoners’ hopes of surviving under the camp’s murderous conditions. Framed around the women who worked there, the book examines a specific and disturbing part of Holocaust history through the intersection of skilled work and imprisonment.

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For readers interested in Holocaust history and the lives of Jewish women during the Second World War.
For readers exploring the history of fashion and clothing in wartime contexts.
For readers seeking historical accounts focused on a particular group of prisoners and their work under Nazi rule.

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Holocaust historyForced labor and survivalJewish women prisonersFashion and wartime power

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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 H

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