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The dressmakers of Auschwitz : the true story of the women who sewed to survive / Lucy Adlington.
Van Pelt Library D805.5.A96 A35 2021b
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Adlington, Lucy, 1970- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp).
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Internment camps.
- Jewish women in the Holocaust.
- Women prisoners.
- Dressmakers.
- Physical Description:
- 381 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First U.S. edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Harper, 2021.
- Summary:
- Drawing on a vast array of sources, including interviews with the last surviving seamstress, this powerful book tells the story of the brave women who used their sewing skills to survive the Holocaust, exposing the greed, cruelty and hypocrisy of the Third Reich.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. One of the Few Who Survived
- 2. The One and Only Power
- 3. What Next, How to Continue?
- 4. The Yellow Star
- 5. The Customary Reception
- 6. You Want to Stay Alive
- 7. I Want to Live Here Till I Die
- 8. Out of Ten Thousand Women
- 9. Solidarity and Support
- 10. The Air Smells Like Burning Paper
- 11. They Want Us to Be Normal?.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-374) and index.
- Other Edition:
- Reproduction of: 9781529311969 Adlington, L.J. (Lucy J.), 1970- London : Hodder & Stoughton, 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780063030930
- 0063030934
- OCLC:
- 1267420669
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