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

by Lucy Adlington

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0063030934
• ISBN13: 9780063030930
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.3" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

Conflicted

I must confess that after empathetically reading dozens of books on concentration camps in Ww2, this account pushed me into a different mindset. Yes, prisoners did what they could to survive, as do most people in any situation, but it must be remembered that slave labor not only advanced the Nazi cause, but prolonged the war, leading to countless Allied deaths. The seamstress's willingness to design and sew dresses for Nazi officers' wives just to save their own skin struck me as repugnant, esp since they endured unimaginable living conditions, and often perished anyway. I hope if found in a similar situation, I would possess the strength of character to refuse to collaborate with the enemy just for the possibility of surviving. Had all slave laborers been so minded, the war would no doubt have ended far earlier. "Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends." John 15:13