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

At the height of the Holocaust, young inmates of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, mainly Jewish women and girls, were selected to design, cut and sew beautiful fashions in a dedicated salon for elite Nazi women. Called the Upper Tailoring Studio, it was established by the camp commandant&#...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Adlington, Lucy, 1970- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021]
Edition:	First US edition.
Subjects:	Auschwitz (Concentration camp) World War, 1939-1945 > Concentration camps. Jewish women in the Holocaust. Women prisoners. Dressmakers.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
One of the few who survived
The one and only power
What next, how to continue?
The yellow star
The customary reception
You want to stay alive
I want to live here till I die
Out of ten thousand women
Solidarity and support
The air smells like burning paper
They want us to be normal?