Four red sweaters : powerful true stories of women and the Holocaust / Lucy Adlington.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Adlington, Lucy, 1970- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Auschwitz (Concentration camp).

Birkenau (Concentration camp).

Jewish women in the Holocaust.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Genre:

Biography.

Informational works.

Illustrated works.

Biographies.

Physical Description:

326 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Powerful true stories of women and the Holocaust

Place of Publication:

New York : Harper, [2025]

Summary:

"The New York Times bestselling author of The Dressmakers of Auschwitz tells the stories of four Jewish girls during the Holocaust, strangers whose lives were unknowingly linked by everyday garments, revealing how the ordinary can connect us in extraordinary ways. Jock Heidenstein, Anita Lasker, Chana Zumerkorn, and Regina Feldman all faced the Holocaust in different ways. While they did not know each other-in fact had never met-each had a red sweater that would play a major part in their lives. In this absorbing and deeply moving account, award-winning clothes historian Lucy Adlington documents their stories, knitting together the experiences that fragmented their families and their lives. Adlington immortalizes these young women whose resilience, skills, strength, and kindness accompanied them through the darkest events in human history. A powerful reminder of the suffering they endured and a celebration of courage, love, and tenacity, this moving and original work illuminates moments long lost to history, now pieced back together by a simple garment. Four Red Sweaters is illustrated with more than two dozen black-and-white images throughout"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introducing four girls

Part one: Salvaged. End of the old, beginning of the new

Winter can get grim

When you hear your name, please come forward

We do not know where it will end

Weather the storm

What is going to happen to us next?

Part two: Unravelled. Dressed in as many layers as possible

What lovely things we made in the ghetto

Nobody must know

Who can knit?

An irresistible urge to flee

I feel good that I fought

Part three: Remnants. The train seemed to have no end

In Auschwitz they stripped us of everything

Battling for survival by sheer instinct

We had learned to be resourceful

Memories become your possessions

So many missing things

Postscript

Acknowledgments

Notes on sources

Bibliography and online sources

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-318) and index.

ISBN:

9780063375130

0063375133

9780063375161

0063375168

OCLC:

1446127389